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I presume they had the ability to detect which bands this thing was transmitting on, entirely disable it with some sort of electronic warfare thingy, and then g

I presume they had the ability to detect which bands this thing was transmitting on, entirely disable it with some sort of electronic warfare thingy, and then get close enough to shoot

angry_octet 4y ago
Difficult to jam what hasn't be observed before. If it used something spread spectrum you would have to have a very powerful noise jammer to saturate the satellite receiver, which would have to be precisely located. The short timeline from "we're not going to shoot this down" to "we shot it down" leads me to believe no in depth analysis occurred. But of course previous balloons may have been observed and even interdicted and we wouldn't necessarily know.