Rest easy fellow patriots, the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade will no longer be terrorizing our skies with their $12 pico balloons after being annihilated by our big, beautiful $400,000 sidewinder missiles.
$400,000 sidewinder missiles
Imagine if that money was instead given as grant to meteorology hobby groups in Illinois, instead of using that money to blow up their shit.
If China simply released a few hundred thousand dollars worth of balloons, they could exhaust the entirety of America’s air defense munitions.
How do I join the pico-ballooning enthusiasts’ community
RIP to their entire project. https://www.picoballoon.org/technology#preorder
Apparently the one over Lake Huron took 2 Siderwinders to shoot down, implying they somehow missed a stationary balloon the first time. Which frankly means the balloon won.