I was thinking that this was a good opportunity for the military industrial complex to ride the hype and make some money by developing an anti-balloon weapon sy

I was thinking that this was a good opportunity for the military industrial complex to ride the hype and make some money by developing an anti-balloon weapon system. Based on my preliminary research of watching youtube videos of people popping party balloons with 1 watt lasers, a scaled up version may be an option, though an anti-balloon missile modeled after a lawn dart also seems intuitive.