Soldato
looks like the missile impacted the instrumentation in that new vid, makes sense in regards to radar I guess.
Taiwan and China thread.
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Oh so its nonsense to think that newer planes have newer tech that can likely aid in accuracy of their armaments?
It might have the same cannon but the systems behind it i would think are newer and can aid more in accuracy than previous versions.
Or is that just wild imagination at play and nothing on these planes has been improved in decades?
Soldato
You're getting sucked in...
Give it a rest Gerard.
So no answer? Nice, run along son.
To the dowie spiel of reply reply reply reply, nah that's my last word, I forgot he was a fighter ace, in battlefield 4. A sad little troll if ever there was one.
*ignore mode activated*
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That was you in this case, I pointed out several posts back that the Canadian airforce tried that approach already, balloons can take hits from multiple rounds and not fall from the sky, it took them several days, better targeting or not it's still inefficient, you're just getting tetchy now and it's rather silly.
Taiwan and China thread.
A ******* missile to shoot down a balloon? Talk about overkill. :cry: They are actually quite difficult to bring down.
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Wonder who retrieved the canopy as a souvenir, looks like it mostly survived at least.
It might end up on ebay in patches for sale for $$$.
Soldato
Looks like the entire cradle attached to the baloon fell as one piece initially, pretty clean. Might be some good stuff to retrieve.
Yup, will be interesting to see what they'll release publicly about it.
Don
Can we get our ballon back mistah?
Soldato
Just keeps entering accidently ye right
If they want WW3 then sure go ahead
No one shoots each other's satellites, it's just the way space works - so it's considered an act of war, anyone who shoots down an American satellite can expect war. You may not see it that way, but most countries do, attacking a foreign states satellites is like attacking their military bases
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It's an automatic cannon fixed to the plane, it fires bullets forward when the trigger is depressed. The only thing that's actually changed in the last sixty years was the introduction of a HUD mounted crosshair to replace the physical one which is capable of adjusting when banking.
The accuracy isn't the problem though, the main problem is that balloons are so slow that by the time it's in "guns range" you would only have a split second to fire before you've passed it. Large air balloons (especially military ones) are actually a lot more durable than you might think and it will take lot of holes (thus a lot of passes) to bring one down.
The missile was absolutely the way to go.