Originally Posted by
JeanKhul
It's not an aircraft going down, it's just a big model with nobody in it. There is no need to make such a fuss about it.
The Americans laughed with bravado when they shot down a motionless balloon, now it's their turn to lose some costly device.
Important thing is that those long-range drones - which they have been flying without authoristation over countless countries - are now proved to be vulnerable.
There is nothing unprofesssionnal in this story, actually I find it quite smart, like the Spitfires unsettling the V1s with their wingtips in 1944.
The balloon was in us air space. This was in international air space.
Should American tax payer not worry that Russia is downing multimillion dollar aircraft paid for by taxes?
Let's hope for a proportionate response.