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- cross-posted to:
- usa
- us_news@lemmygrad.ml
Nobody could have predicted this. I have my doubts even when they call it “spying equipment” or whatever considering Chinese claim it was a meteorological balloon, certainly no doubt they would try to paint those tools as such.
And one missed
And in the immense wave of paranoia afterwards they shot down three American weather balloons at the cost of 400k per missile plus fuel and maintenance and man hours.
And one of them was a child’s science project
Doesn’t an F-35 cost something stupid like 40k an hour to operate?
greatest military in the world no doubt
They love to talk all that shit about “our missiles are so accurate that we can hit a ladybug” or some such level of nonsense. Which all of a sudden goes away every time that it is shown how many more people were killed while trying to get one person.
Turns out they can only hit a ladybug because the heat from the blast fries the bug even if the missile misses by a wide margin
superior firepower just means more firepower