They can stop them, but they're not allowed to shot them out of the sky because the debris might "hurt someone on the ground". This kind of shit needs to stop. Shoot them down.
Then you are not paying attention. The USAF, Army, and Navy are ALWAYS concerned over any loss of life or aircraft. The possible damage can be terrible. Pilots have sometimes deliberately passed up an opportunity to eject in order to get their damaged aircraft headed in a safe direction.
Lots of different aerial objects. Even something as small as a light plane can causes serious damage falling out of the sky. Even frozen toilet flush from an airliner.
As for the Chinese balloon, the gondola was about the size of a school bus and would have caused serious damage and potential injury. Just as easy to shoot it down over water: no one harmed and easy recovery for analysis. What the bright people here fail to understand is that the U.S. military is accustomed to "cover up" when under view of Russian reconnaissance satellites, so it is no problem to do the same for a slow-moving object. The location and layout of military bases is already public knowledge through civil and private aviation. Allowing the balloon to operate provided an opportunity to listen to its remote radio reports and gather signals intelligence data. There is a very good chance we found out more about China than they did of us.
Chinese ballon: couldn't they have shot a small hole in the ballon, so it slowly leaked & descended safety, it was over open country at times. If I thought of this at the time so could have they. Those in control then is the key. jmo
Difficult to shoot a telling shot at a closing rate of 600 mph. And it turns out that the leakage rate is not so fast as for a party balloon in one's kitchen. These balloons are not pressurized. They ultimately shot it down with a missile. I did research studies on aerostats that could operate at 100,000 feet or so. That would be higher than any of our aircraft could fly, including U-2s. I'm thinking the most effective counter would be radioelectronic warfare (which we don't have).
They can stop them, but they're not allowed to shot them out of the sky because the debris might "hurt someone on the ground". This kind of shit needs to stop. Shoot them down.
Sounds like bullshit excuses.
It totally is. They said that they can't shoot any drone down. Absolute BS.
They don't seem very concerned about all of the planes and helicopters that have been crashing.
Then you are not paying attention. The USAF, Army, and Navy are ALWAYS concerned over any loss of life or aircraft. The possible damage can be terrible. Pilots have sometimes deliberately passed up an opportunity to eject in order to get their damaged aircraft headed in a safe direction.
Smells like it...💩💩💩💩💩
Fly over White House, Mar-a-Lago, Area 51, Groom Lake, S-4 & see what happens. No Fly Zones are off limits period.
Great point
You get a missile 'Rectumdectomy' like Trump said. 😮😵💫🤣
Rectum? 💩
Damned near kilt em 😆😆😆
Lots of different aerial objects. Even something as small as a light plane can causes serious damage falling out of the sky. Even frozen toilet flush from an airliner.
As for the Chinese balloon, the gondola was about the size of a school bus and would have caused serious damage and potential injury. Just as easy to shoot it down over water: no one harmed and easy recovery for analysis. What the bright people here fail to understand is that the U.S. military is accustomed to "cover up" when under view of Russian reconnaissance satellites, so it is no problem to do the same for a slow-moving object. The location and layout of military bases is already public knowledge through civil and private aviation. Allowing the balloon to operate provided an opportunity to listen to its remote radio reports and gather signals intelligence data. There is a very good chance we found out more about China than they did of us.
Chinese ballon: couldn't they have shot a small hole in the ballon, so it slowly leaked & descended safety, it was over open country at times. If I thought of this at the time so could have they. Those in control then is the key. jmo
Difficult to shoot a telling shot at a closing rate of 600 mph. And it turns out that the leakage rate is not so fast as for a party balloon in one's kitchen. These balloons are not pressurized. They ultimately shot it down with a missile. I did research studies on aerostats that could operate at 100,000 feet or so. That would be higher than any of our aircraft could fly, including U-2s. I'm thinking the most effective counter would be radioelectronic warfare (which we don't have).
Lasers