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Originally Posted by jeffman
Why not go clean and go for guns kill? Surely they can get a slow balloon 3 bus length swithout missiles
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I read about a similar incident and they tried this and it took thousands of rounds and still did nothing. The balloon isn’t really under pressure. I’ll see if I can find it.
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Two Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 fighter aircraft spotted the balloon over Newfoundland and fired more than 1,000 rounds at it. The AP reported that the jets, Canadian variants of the American F/A-18 Hornet, hit the balloon, but rather than popping or exploding and crashing to the earth, it slowly began leaking helium. The big balloon was still in the air.
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https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/we...161314996.html
it was the size of a 25 storey building. These things are huge, bullets are tiny.