to shoot them down, which seems to be the only available option. yeah. even the highest flying military jets, things like the f 22 or the british typhoon, which can operate significantly above 50,000 feet, which is typically where fast jets tend to stop in terms of going higher, f 22, typhoon can operate up to 60,000 feet or even a little above. it s tricky being up there. there are considerations around pilot life support and pressurisation of the cockpit. typically, aircraft are designed to operate at really extreme altitudes above that, like the u 2 spy plane or the 71 blackbird, again, spy plane. crews would wear kind of spacesuits, full pressure suits, and most jet fighters aren t equipped for that. also, where there have been previous examples of weather balloons, for example, or surveillance balloons from the us side that have kind of got lost or cables have broken, where fighters have tried to shoot them down at lower altitudes using cheaper gunnery,
norad, to adjust their radar settings. domestic political pressure may have played a part. this is the atrocity that s happening here to america. and if we don t speak stronger, china will continue to do this. scramble some more f 22 raptors, throw some lead in that sucker. trump wanted to nuke a hurricane. you guys won t even throw a dart at a balloon? there was outcry in america as to why a massive spy balloon had not been spotted and shot down earlier. but that meant in the next few days, they were now seeing many more of what were described not as balloons, but objects. if anything enters into our airspace, whether we know what it is or not, we will monitor it and we ll take appropriate action. one was seen over alaska and shot down near a place called deadhorse on february 10th. the next day, another object was shot down over the yukon in canada. and then on february 12th, a strange octagonal object was shot down by fighters over lake huron. these were lower and smaller than the f
WASHINGTON Following weeks of closer scrutiny into objects entering U.S. airspace, Pentagon officials announced Tuesday that they’d successfully shot down a kid jumping too high on a trampoline. “The airborne object spotted about nine feet above a small midwestern town was successfully downed by an American F-22 with…
ones were china. if you re not sure what they are, how do you know whose they are? that s the big concern and they don t seem to care. and china flew this before antony blinken was supposed to go to beijing so middle finger but if we are shooting things down and military resources, shouldn t we know what we are shooting down? all we do know is a weekend balloon club called balloon brigade, we may send an f-22 fighter jet to put a sidewinder missile and it but the fact that they don t know what three of the four are, they shot it down and stopped looking for it but yet no two, the investigation set in, they don t know what it was, it s been taken off-line to ossified level so whenever they find out they are not going to tell us. the important thing, this was