Talk About Tennis 2.0

We are all joking here, but this was actually a bullseye shot - at least from appearance. I get it, it was an F22, but it was likely flying as slow as possible at that altitude (in other words, not slow), and the balloon was practically stationary (relative to the F22). And, I don't know how they hit the balloon, the actual balloon, dead center, but they did it.

There was thought put into this. They could have fired a fully loaded warhead into it, and that would be a massive explosion. They essentially fired what I would characterize as a guided bullet into the balloon, and only the balloon. Regardless if they recovered the payload intact or not, the pilot did a damn fine job (and so did the people that planned the mission).

patrick wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 11:01 am Read where China had three balloons fly over USA during the previous admin but nothing was done

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 4:26 pm I am about to side with the Chinese.
There is another balloon floating over S. America. To which you ask: what for? What can you spy about S. America that you cannot get by bribing some govt official?
"Oh, we are seeing a lot. Like, a lot of jungles, a lot rivers, lots of empty spaces..."
That thing must be here by mistake.