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Re:Did an F-22 Blow Up an Illinois Club’s Hobby Balloon? by neodymiumphish on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:43PM (#34840277)
For NORAD and other air defense platforms, they're a ton of filtering that must be done to ignore cruft, otherwise they'd be responding to floating plastic bags, birds, etc, constantly.

From the missile system and fighter radar perspective, that's not something they heavily (if at all) test these platforms against, because that's not a threat there's any expectation to face.

Re:Did an F-22 Blow Up an Illinois Club’s Hobby Balloon? by mrguyorama on Friday February 17, 2023 @04:52PM (#34841090)
I think it's hilarious that our defense tracking infrastructure is too good at seeing stuff and that causes problems.