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using ballons as a ddos attack, making the usaf spend 500k per each

• asdff 4y ago
  Sounds like you are just making your adversary fund a jobs program you probably can't afford to keep up with. Bomber gap all over again.
• arcticfox 4y ago
  Everyone acting like the USAF has never scrambled jets and fired AIM9Xs before for practice... the 3 so far have been a more fun (and probably more effective) training program. If somebody starts sending thousands...the retaliation clearly isn't going to be against the balloons, but against the sender.
  • sundvor 4y ago
    Five AIM-9Xs, to be precise. Four targets destroyed in total; one of the F-16 launched ones missed.
• someweirdperson 4y ago
  At that scale, a change to true mass production of ordnance would occur, significantly reducing the price per piece.