they actually shot down a middle school student's balloon https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/hobby-clubs-missing-balloon-feared-shot-down-usaf
The descriptions of all three unidentified objects shot down Feb. 10-12 match the shapes, altitudes and payloads of the small pico balloons, which can usually be purchased for $12-180 each, depending on the type.
Sidewinder heat-seeking missiles cost over $400,000 a pop
antifa superscientists... rise up
Must be nice to just be able to burn $400k like a hundred dollar bill to light a cigar, fuck you money,
every time a missile is fired a Raytheon executive gets a hard-on and hears cash register noises
Could have bought an entire fucking house for one of our country's hundreds of thousands of homeless but nope, I guess this is a better use of our money
tbh $400,000 is pocket change for America. Which is what makes the fact they refuse to help people at all even worse
Money is absolutely meaningless when it's just numbers on a ledger that you get to decide how much it has.
So the first one was the big Chinese balloon, the second one a US weather balloon, and the third one a kids project?
Lmao:mission-accomplished-1::mission-accomplished-2:
My coworker has been saying this so I've been sending him videos of every helium balloon I spot floating away.
Hey Siri, how much does an unexploded sidewinder missile go for on the black market?
I don't think I've mentioned this anywhere else, but it wouldn't shock me at all if the "octagonal" one was related to a specific Norwegian logistics & """defense""" company or one doing something very similar. I could be entirely wrong but I saw things just like it during an intership years ago. Just a very low-tech piece of hardware for talking to satellites on the opposite side of the planet, from ground-based arrays.
It's entirely plausible to me that those are no longer used, one just happened to have drifted over Lake Huron or wherever that one was, and got caught up in the USAF sparring windmills.
:frothingfash: :liberalism: THIS IS A COVERUP BY CHYNA
Next time they are going to shoot the amogus chicken nugget that people sent on a balloon. :among-drip:
Those are middle schoolers today?? Kid on the far right looks 17, guy next to him looks 16
As somebody who hangs around tons of teenage boys, these two do not look anywhere near 16 or 17
I mean, I'm 18 and fresh out of high school, those guys defo look more high school imo
I work in schools, they're god damn giants these days. Probably all the microplastics.
