That'd be so funny. We scrambled fighter jets and fired missiles because at the cost of atleast tens of thousands of dollars because Jaxon is trying to get into MIT
at the cost of atleast tens of thousands of dollars
Think an order of magnitude or two higher. A single Raytheon AIM-9 Sidewinder costs $400,000. Flight time for a Lockheed Martin F-16 costs about $400 a minute to operate, and its annual maintenance costs are about $10,000,000.
I am almost certain that is the case. I was in an undergrad science club that wanted to send up an atmospheric balloon for fun, but didn't get the money together to do it. And had a family member work at Raven, which made/makes (recently acquired and being sold off for parts to other engineering firms) all of the US's high altitude balloons. There are so many "citizen-scientists" that send up balloons without directly notifying the government that shooting down high-altitude objects will more directly affect Bob from Kansas's film project than hidden Chinese spy missions.
20 bucks most of these are highschool and college mini weather balloon projects
That'd be so funny. We scrambled fighter jets and fired missiles because at the cost of atleast tens of thousands of dollars because Jaxon is trying to get into MIT
Think an order of magnitude or two higher. A single Raytheon AIM-9 Sidewinder costs $400,000. Flight time for a Lockheed Martin F-16 costs about $400 a minute to operate, and its annual maintenance costs are about $10,000,000.
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I am almost certain that is the case. I was in an undergrad science club that wanted to send up an atmospheric balloon for fun, but didn't get the money together to do it. And had a family member work at Raven, which made/makes (recently acquired and being sold off for parts to other engineering firms) all of the US's high altitude balloons. There are so many "citizen-scientists" that send up balloons without directly notifying the government that shooting down high-altitude objects will more directly affect Bob from Kansas's film project than hidden Chinese spy missions.
if an F-16 is shooting them down, theyd have to be pretty high up, which would maybe require FAA clearance?