biden admin merely used this particular balloon as a vehicle to appear tough against china
F-22 air-air kills to date: 1 balloon
there have been other balloons that floated by, probably going back to the G.w. bush era.
it's only a balloon, and shooting it down is inherently risky, and a balloon isn't going to see anything that chinese satellites can't see. So again its a response testing platform, which isn't a real threat, and could be risky to destroy as you don't know what its made of, what its carrying or whats inside it.
so most days the DoD is just gonna be like, "screw that it'll drop in the ocean in a few days, lets go get lunch"
but dark brandon being a vast failure that his admin is, just saw a feeble opportunity to exercise a little military power, so they sent an F-22 to down a balloon with an air-air missle.
its a stunt, they coulda hit it with alot of things which are alot cheaper.
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