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Feb 4 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Bullseye #ChineseSpyBalloon is no more!
Moments after impact
Moment of impact. I don’t see a SM-6 or any large missile. Have to assume guns from a fighter. Waiting for a statement
Scratch that! Short range shot with a missile, probably a AIM-9x
AIM-9x makes sense. The RCS might be low, radar lock might be kinda hard beyond that if you except ELINT sensors an IR/UV guidance doesn’t emit any RF!
Wonder if the missile even proximity fused or literally just poked a hole in the balloon? Could be why we didn’t see it on the live stream? Maybe it just zoomed through at Mach 2 or 3? It’s going to be interesting to hear some details once they come out
Another angle
Looks like it did fuse near the payload. You would expect the PV panels to have the highest IR signature
Can’t confirm yet but this sounds correct!
I love the fact as Americans we can go the beach under a presidential TFR and take high res pics of a military operation! And no one is going to the gulag 🇺🇸

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Feb 5
Behold the radio traffic from the #ChinaSpyBalloon #shootdown SNR is quite low headphones are needed! Might be worth cleaning this up through a speech filter.
If you haven’t already heard they used the callsign Frank as a reference to Frank Luke a WW1 Fighter Ace (Luke AFB is named in his honor) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luke
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Feb 5
According to @wardcarroll video the AIM-9X didn’t have a warhead! What I was thinking based on the video early but a flash in one of the videos made me think otherwise!
The missile was launched from 58kft and that Raptor makes a fairly aggressive turn after the shoot down. Think about that for just a second!Weather balloon OBS 12z
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Pressure at the surface was 1033mb so 79.90/1033 = 0.07734 so 7% of the surface pressure! Water boils at 41c or 106F at that pressure! Yet that Raptor makes a fairly aggressive turn! Cool stuff!
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Feb 4
KC-135 orbiting off Myrtle Beach
Sure looks like a nice day to pop a balloon!
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Feb 3
Let’s talk about a 380lb AMRAAM intercepting a balloon. The missile will likely expend all it’s fuel which is probably 70% of its mass if the war head goes boom you scatter fragments and debris and loose maybe 20lb converting solid to gas. Image
That leaves nearly 100lbs of debris from the missile alone all spread out like a big shotgun blast. What’s the terminal velocity of the debris 🤷‍♀️ Now add in the 🎈 payload that looks the be significant. The ballon has a airspeed of 0 relative to the atmospheric flow!
When an aircraft gets hit by a missile at altitude moving 500kts you tend to see fairly significant break up caused aerodynamic forces. The balloons payload won’t see those forces unless the payload falls without a parachute which is a danger to the population.
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