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[Dewey]

If it is A satellite, why is there a string of them?

Starlink they say.

Starlink - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Rick3478]

If it is A satellite, why is there a string of them?

Probably StarLink recently launched. Takes awhile for them to separate and maneuver into their operational orbits.

 

[djevox]

Elon’s tweet about the starlink satellites

 

[djevox]

he also posted this

 

[jloops]

 

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[djevox]

 

[jloops]

 

[Dewey]

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Instead we’re shooting them with $400,000+ Sidewinder missiles. Guessing somebody in the Defense Department has stock in the company that produces them.

Suspected China spy balloon and UFOs destroyed by Sidewinder missiles | Fortune

The AIM-9X Sidewinder is a heat-seeking, supersonic, short-range missile that was used to take down China's suspected spy balloon.

fortune.com

First shot at the one over Lake Huron was a miss so they had to take a second shot. Expensive mission for something the size of a small car.

 

[jloops]

Yeah kind of sad they missed the first shot on a target not shooting back.

 

[Mountain Whiskey]

Yeah kind of sad they missed the first shot on a target not shooting back.

Tom Cruise was highly disappointed in those boys....

 

[jimothy]

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A-tack-plane!

 

[Dewey]

Tom Cruise was highly disappointed in those boys....

If I go magnet fishing in Huron and catch the Sidewinder can I get half it’s value for a recovery fee?

 

[Loudram]

Yeah kind of sad they missed the first shot on a target not shooting back.

Or making evasive maneuvers. It was just hanging around, literally.

 

[Scram1500]

 

[Rick3478]

Instead we’re shooting them with $400,000+ Sidewinder missiles. Guessing somebody in the Defense Department has stock in the company that produces them.

What happened to Yankee ingenuity? Can't someone fit a couple solar panels and electric fans on a blimp? Remote control with like a cellphone and raspberry pi so we don't have to send living beings to high altitude? Dangle a few big treble hooks on nylon rope to snag things and just drag them to the ground? Sounds to me like something that could be done for maybe half the cost of a single missile. How do we not have drone craft capable of doing this? Am I the only one having these thoughts?

 

[Threesuns1]

What happened to Yankee ingenuity? Can't someone fit a couple solar panels and electric fans on a blimp? Remote control with like a cellphone and raspberry pi so we don't have to send living beings to high altitude? Dangle a few big treble hooks on nylon rope to snag things and just drag them to the ground? Sounds to me like something that could be done for maybe half the cost of a single missile. How do we not have drone craft capable of doing this? Am I the only one having these thoughts?

I was thinking why not shoot the balloon with the whatever guns are on the aircraft. That would puncture the balloon and it would strimmer down and keep it mostly in tack.

 

[Rick3478]

I was thinking why not shoot the balloon with the whatever guns are on the aircraft. That would puncture the balloon and it would strimmer down and keep it mostly in tack.

That would at least be cheaper than sidewinders. Still burn about a ton of jet fuel and it would just make the balloon leaky. It would eventually come down somewhere, and sooner, but not much control over exactly where.