3rd unidentified object shot down, this time over Canada - P17

[denislawsbackheel]

According to reports it was flying above the height limit of the Raptor that shot it down.
As for machine gun bullets in 1998 the Canadian airforce tried to shoot down an errant meteorological balloon. It took over 1000 rounds and still flew for 6 days. They don’t go pop like party balloons, the pressure difference inside and out is minimal and the balloons are so big they would swallow the Etihad.

 

[Blue Mist]

Putin is another one

He is not mad like Musk though. Putin is mental in ways I have little knowledge of. Putins money came from corruption and murder, an evil that is beyond me.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

According to reports it was flying above the height limit of the Raptor that shot it down.
As for machine gun bullets in 1998 the Canadian airforce tried to shoot down an errant meteorological balloon. It took over 1000 rounds and still flew for 6 days. They don’t go pop like party balloons, the pressure difference inside and out is minimal and the balloons are so big they would swallow the Etihad.

Interesting to understand how the F22 took it down with a Sidewinder missile. Don’t they look for heat which jet engines give off in abundance, how would you lock onto a helium balloon that way. Would it be the mass of helium being hotter than the external air or heat being given off by the solar arrays and equipment it had onboard?

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Interesting to understand how the F22 took it down with a Sidewinder missile. Don’t they look for heat which jet engines give off in abundance, how would you lock onto a helium balloon that way. Would it be the mass of helium being hotter than the external air or heat being given off by the solar arrays and equipment it had onboard?

Proximity switch or timer. Times says they can set either on sidewinders.

 

[grunge]

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

I havent clicked that but reading the motif in his jumper it is a fair bet that he is a raving internet loon

 

[inbetween]

Interesting to understand how the F22 took it down with a Sidewinder missile. Don’t they look for heat which jet engines give off in abundance, how would you lock onto a helium balloon that way. Would it be the mass of helium being hotter than the external air or heat being given off by the solar arrays and equipment it had onboard?

Heat seeking is perhaps the wrong description. No IR missile specifically seeks heat, it seeks the temperature contrast so your description of hotter than the external air is correct. The balloon skin will be slightly warmer than the surrounding air due to sun heating and that's enough.

All the seeker will see is a black background (the surrounding air) with a white image (the balloon). The seeker guides the missile towards the white and a fuze detonates the warhead when it gets close enough.

The only problem with heat seeking missiles is you can't really detect heat from far away so they're pretty useless at long range. Longer range missiles use the radar on the aircraft for guidance but the radar needs to detect the enemy aircraft first which is why stealth aircraft are now becoming really important as you can't kill what you can't see.

Aircraft like the F-35 can fire missiles at you from 100 miles and you'd never know it was coming. It'd be far too late to react with heat seekers once the range closes as you'd likely be dead by then.

 

[grunge]

I havent clicked that but reading the motif in his jumper it is a fair bet that he is a raving internet loon

He's actually very good, He changes T-Shirt based on the video content. some of the references I dont get mind you.

but on 'the raving internet loon' point, His look is actually a bit of a ploy, He looks like a right wing red neck nutter but is actually a well researched liberal, ex military and a journalist now.

His videos were used as part of a 'deprogramming' scheme until he got outed. people would go to his videos' expecting to find hard right conspiracy stuff, but get well researched info instead in a hope to stop people falling into dangerous rabbit holes.

I highly recommend his channel, for Ukraine insights when he does post them and also for anything US politics.

 

[theinvisibleman]

 

[pete73]

Top Air Force general says the U.S. failed to detect previous Chinese spy balloons

Chinese balloons transited the U.S. four other times in recent years, the general said.

www.axios.com

"Over the weekend, a senior defense official said Chinese government surveillance balloons had flown above the continental U.S. four other times in recent years — three times while former president Donald Trump was in office, and once under Biden — "but never for this duration of time."
Driving the news: "I will tell you that we did not detect those threats," Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, head of U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, said Monday of any previous balloons.

"That's a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out," VanHerck said in a briefing with reporters. "But I don't want to go in further detail.""

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