Why can't we shoot the Balloon down? That's the question that we should be asking

The next one will have a different payload, and EMP or a small nuclear device.

They're testing to see how we respond to this one.

If the jet stream pushes that thing down south its going to look like the skies over Baghdad the opening night of Desert Storm.

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If it's at 100,000 feet, its not as easy as people keep saying. A F-22 cant just fly at 80K feet and fire a missile.

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Right. I've heard some speculation that we don't possess the capability to do it easily. I've also heard that this is not the first occurrence and that the government would have, and prefer to, keep it quiet. Unfortunately, in this instance, it was seen by others, so some sort of acknowledgement/statement had to be issued.

The Chinese own the current dementia patient in the white house and half of the members of congress.

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Right. I've heard some speculation that we don't possess the capability to do it easily.

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It can be done, but not easily and would cost a shite ton of money.

Gaetz was telling Bannon on War Room this morning the military may be holding off shooting down the balloon so the CCP can't gather information on high altitude US missile capabilities......seems lame but who knows. The other thought was the US military was monitoring the equipment on the balloon and it was not transferring data so why shoot it down. What if the equipment was gathering data and is going to transfer the data after it leaves US airspace....hmmm? I say once it gets off the east coast annihilate the damn thing.

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Experimental I believe

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One of our satellites with a decaying orbit. During the Cold War.

so we can melt the outer skin of a ICBM, in space, with a laser but we cant do that to this ballon?