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Forum: Military Aviation

15th Feb 2023, 18:30

Replies: 291

High altitude object shot down

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Posted By pattern_is_full

Hmmm - what do you believe the survivability of...

Hmmm - what do you believe the survivability of an F22 is, when ramming something (even a balloon) at Mach 1±?

F22 - $210 million
AIM-9x - $0.4 million
;)

Forum: Military Aviation

15th Feb 2023, 18:07

Replies: 291

High altitude object shot down

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Posted By pattern_is_full

Quite right (with a couple of minor adjustments)....

Quite right (with a couple of minor adjustments).

Rather surprises me that people supposedly professionally trained in the subjects of drag and weight and aerial velocity appear to have never...

Forum: Military Aviation

12th Feb 2023, 00:48

Replies: 291

High altitude object shot down

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Posted By pattern_is_full

CNN and Daily Mail are now reporting the KC-135...

CNN and Daily Mail are now reporting the KC-135 is departing the Havre, Montana area to the west, and the airspace restriction has been lifted.

(scroll down below the maps to see the update).
...

Forum: Military Aviation

12th Feb 2023, 00:12

Replies: 291

High altitude object shot down

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Posted By pattern_is_full

Not any more, it appears..... ...

Not any more, it appears.....

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/11/us-jet-canada-unidentified-object-trudeau-00082440

May need yet another thread....;)

Forum: Military Aviation

10th Feb 2023, 21:30

Replies: 291

High altitude object shot down

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Posted By pattern_is_full

You did note the "smiley? ;)

You did note the "smiley? ;)

Forum: Military Aviation

10th Feb 2023, 21:00

Replies: 291

High altitude object shot down

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Posted By pattern_is_full

Well there is this - and it is a civil UAV. One...

Well there is this - and it is a civil UAV. One wonders what the classified military/CIA/FSB/PLA record for UAV flight is?)
...

Forum: Military Aviation

10th Feb 2023, 20:43

Replies: 291

High altitude object shot down

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Posted By pattern_is_full

Also running in the previous China Balloon thread...

Also running in the previous China Balloon thread - mods may want to slice and dice to either combine the subjects, or separate them entirely here.

Forum: Military Aviation

10th Feb 2023, 20:24

Replies: 291

High altitude object shot down

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Posted By pattern_is_full

Actually, the official briefings thus far have...

Actually, the official briefings thus far have declined to characterize it at all. Ruling nothing in or out, except as "an object." Although it was mentioned numerous times that the object was "about...

Forum: Military Aviation

10th Feb 2023, 20:07

Replies: 291

High altitude object shot down

Views: 109,933

Posted By pattern_is_full

NOTAM (Temporary Flight Restrictions) issued for...

NOTAM (Temporary Flight Restrictions) issued for Deadhorse/Prudhoe Bay (Alaska) area today. Apparently the location of the search for wreckage of the current downed object (possibly offshore on sea...

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