Originally Posted by
Matt2725
They did destroy a satellite in orbit with an F-15 once, so not out of the question.
But the missile used for that purpose cost in the order of 50 million Dollars (the original plan was to deploy 112 of them at a total cost of 5.3 billion $, so roughly 50 a piece - from here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-135_ASAT). Apart from the fact that probably no operational missiles remain, it would be a rather expensive way to get rid of a harmless photo balloon...