A U.S. Air Force jet, not a vigilante from a meme, fired a missile that took down the Chinese balloon.
claiming that a"Dad with a webcam has SHOT DOWN the CHINESE SPY BALLOON in an EXTRAORDINARY act of vigilantism!"
The F-22 Raptor fighter that took down the Chinese balloon fired one AIM-9X Sidewinder missile from an altitude of 58,000 feet, according to the Defense Department. At the time, the balloon was hovering between 60,000 and 65,000 feet — at least more than 11 miles high. But people unfamiliar with the Sam Hyde meme should have a hard time suspending their disbelief that a lone gunman on the ground knocked out a balloon miles and miles overhead.that trying to take out a high-altitude balloon with the air defense systems the United States has is"very difficult" because most systems"weren’t designed to shoot down things operating at the kinds of high altitude balloons can operate at."in 2009 and cited MythBusters, which concluded that a .
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