Three objects shot down in three days? Latest one was over Lake Huron.

Latest Chinese spy balloon spotted over Manhattan: [image] USAF scrambling sharpened sticks armed with Hershey bars and graham crackers.

It would be hard to get an IR lock on a 1 meter ambient temperature object even with an imaging IR seeker and a radar lock cue. Guns would be difficult because of the extreme closure rate and the possibility of ingesting debris. A miss is not all that surprising, you could get a growl and lock tone…

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[image] US military completes recovery of Chinese balloon downed off South Carolina It is headed to an FBI laboratory in Virginia for analysis, said officials. Read more at straitstimes.com. So now they should be able to tell the world the truth (and nothing…

I am guessing that these aircraft aren’t fitted with any kind of canon?

Extremely high closure rate and possible ingestion of debris would make cannon use difficult.

It is not the first time that balloons have caused trouble: From smp.no a few days ago: Ballonger til besvær - smp.no Google translation.

FWIW, the latest versions of the Sidewinder use both IR and optical target tracking, so as long as the envelope is optically distinguishable from the sky behind it, they will track. The missile used to destroy the actual Chinese balloon didn’t even have an explosive warhead, it just demolished the …

They may change shape but would not change volume.

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