Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada
by Ancapistani on Saturday February 11, 2023 @06:17PM
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Higher would be more expensive to shoot down, but given that we have missiles designed to shoot down satellites - at least in LEO - I don’t think it’ll be possible to use altitude as a means of evading response.
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Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada
by dirtyid on Saturday February 11, 2023 @06:28PM
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US switching platforms itself has information value. If it takes expensive ASAT tier platforms to take out balloons then saturation with higher ballons might be viable. Like if US has to start trading 5M USD SM6s to hit 110ft ballons, then 100K USD balloons might be economic way to trade sap US advanced missile inventory in future war.
Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada
by georgeg23 on Saturday February 11, 2023 @07:03PM
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These balloons could be an economical counter to the American Low Earth Orbit Military Constellation https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Development_Agency