My questions come from the limited knowledge yet wondering child inside me, so as a way of closing out this thread which I started, I’d like to thank those who contributed to the edification process, including the links to similar discussions which I missed before posting – and sorry for the redundancy. My take away is that the military might of the U.S., despite its $900B/year budget, has failed to find an adequate defense of high altitude objects. Even with the ability to “read a license plate from a satellite”, it’s unable to determine the identity, origin, or purpose of such an object, and incapable of bringing it down safely in a salvageable way. Perhaps America’s ‘Achilles heel’ has been exposed! A fleet of high altitude balloons released across the country with payloads destined for no good (germ/nuclear/dirty bombs, etc) would appear to be a way for our enemies to attack, should they be so inclined. I’d like to believe that this problem does have a solution, and it’s just a matter of focusing attention back to such problems instead of spending that time teaching wokeness in the military. I’m not encouraged by the responses I’ve seen in these recent balloon cases.
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