I still don't understand why/how a sidewinder was used as even the article states that it is a heat seeking missile. On a balloon. This seems very wrong and may indicate comms of some sort.
None of it makes any sense. For that matter, does a party balloon even show up on radar or other sensory tech? Can an F22 track one? Could the pilot not have done a visual fly by from some distance off?
It could have been an aluminum foil balloon, perhaps that would be enough to actually create a signature on radar I don't know. But all the same. It's bizarre.
It's a bad look for the biggest superpower in the world to go off half-cocked shooting literal party balloons out of the sky. Afraid much? What happens if there was an actual (minor) threat? Would they nuke it?
The two northern ones were hobby balloons. The Huron one was party balloons. You would be amazed at what can be picked up by fight radar. For the fighter pilots, a kill is a kill. They did not shoot the Huron one. At least not on the audio. The other two were likely nearly vaporized by the AIM-9X warhead.
Air Farce is more like it.
I still don't understand why/how a sidewinder was used as even the article states that it is a heat seeking missile. On a balloon. This seems very wrong and may indicate comms of some sort.
None of it makes any sense. For that matter, does a party balloon even show up on radar or other sensory tech? Can an F22 track one? Could the pilot not have done a visual fly by from some distance off?
It could have been an aluminum foil balloon, perhaps that would be enough to actually create a signature on radar I don't know. But all the same. It's bizarre.
It's a bad look for the biggest superpower in the world to go off half-cocked shooting literal party balloons out of the sky. Afraid much? What happens if there was an actual (minor) threat? Would they nuke it?
The two northern ones were hobby balloons. The Huron one was party balloons. You would be amazed at what can be picked up by fight radar. For the fighter pilots, a kill is a kill. They did not shoot the Huron one. At least not on the audio. The other two were likely nearly vaporized by the AIM-9X warhead.
Thanks for the insight.
We know they are not real UFOs because Gort would have zapped the planes!
haha thanks for that clip!