A third object shot down
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Why waste an expensive Sidewinder when you could just plug it with machine gun fire? Seems excessive for an object the size of a tiny car with no evasive ability.
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Why waste an expensive Sidewinder when you could just plug it with machine gun fire? Seems excessive for an object the size of a tiny car with no evasive ability.
@Mik said in A third object shot down:
Why waste an expensive Sidewinder when you could just plug it with machine gun fire? Seems excessive for an object the size of a tiny car with no evasive ability.
F-22's can carry a gatling gun and the object was well within the aircraft's operational ceiling. Maybe they don't want to get close enough to use gunfire?
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So, we've had 3 flyovers in less than 10 days.
Is this something unusual, or is it just now being publicized because of the balloon popped last Saturday?
Something tells me it's the latter. I would be surprised if
Chinawhoever is deploying these things all of a sudden."Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Yep the odds of hitting anything are infinitesimal. But the question is what is it and how did it get there.
@Mik said in A third object shot down:
Yep the odds of hitting anything are infinitesimal. But the question is what is it and how did it get there.
Indeed.
And I just can't believe that this is all just a coincidence.
4 events in 9 days?
Nope.
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Canada have anything to say about this? I can't find anything.
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Canada have anything to say about this? I can't find anything.
I don’t know why you can’t find anything. The story is is at the top of virtually every news source in this country since around 2:30 pm MDT Saturday afternoon.
In the meantime try this link to start:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/norad-monitoring-airborne-object-north-1.6745575
Elbows up!
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So, we've had 3 flyovers in less than 10 days.
Is this something unusual, or is it just now being publicized because of the balloon popped last Saturday?
Something tells me it's the latter. I would be surprised if
Chinawhoever is deploying these things all of a sudden.@George-K said in A third object shot down:
So, we've had 3 flyovers in less than 10 days.
Is this something unusual, or is it just now being publicized because of the balloon popped last Saturday?
Just speculating … if no fly-over object ever got publicized, North America can know about them, strategically feed them with misinformation, and let the fly-over objects carry bad intelligence back to their operator(s). But once one such fly-over object is publicized, the adversaries know that you know and this sort of counterintelligence tactics won’t work anymore, you might as well just neutralize the fly-over objects.
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@George-K said in A third object shot down:
So, we've had 3 flyovers in less than 10 days.
Is this something unusual, or is it just now being publicized because of the balloon popped last Saturday?
Just speculating … if no fly-over object ever got publicized, North America can know about them, strategically feed them with misinformation, and let the fly-over objects carry bad intelligence back to their operator(s). But once one such fly-over object is publicized, the adversaries know that you know and this sort of counterintelligence tactics won’t work anymore, you might as well just neutralize the fly-over objects.
@Axtremus said in A third object shot down:
@George-K said in A third object shot down:
So, we've had 3 flyovers in less than 10 days.
Is this something unusual, or is it just now being publicized because of the balloon popped last Saturday?
Just speculating … if no fly-over object ever got publicized, North America can know about them, strategically feed them with misinformation
Half-full this morning, eh?
