Unidentified Floating Objects

[steven lloyd]

Why the heck would anyone waste a good (and expensive) missle on these objects? Why not just use some 50 calibre bullets or whatever ammo is on board to do the job;

There's actually a pretty simple explanation for that.

[Silverstarqueen]

What a joke,,, me thinks Freeland was looking for ammo in her purse for her slingshot to defend Canada while trudie is basting in the sun down south..

What purse? I haven't seen Freeland with a purse.

[seewood]

Short version,,, we don't have the correct type of missiles to shoot these down. We have (basically) antique jets with antique weapons. The auditor general warned they had "become" outdated in a 2018 report.

The Aim 9 sidewinders are a heat seeking anti aircraft missile. A heat signature has to be sufficient for the seeker head to lock on. How a balloon generates enough heat is beyond me as the missile was designed to lock onto the heat from an aircrafts exhaust.
Perhaps why the F-16 over Lake Huron fired two as the first one missed.

next up was the Aim 120 sparrow which is a radar guided longer distant missile. I can see that one working as the head is locked onto a radar signal which a balloon would be able to produce.

Regardless, Canada does have Aim 9's and Aim 120's in stock, just likely 20+ years old as Canada is so cheap with its military a pilot might have one live fire practice during a 10 year career.

[dirtybiker]

I can't help but think there is a distraction side to this, otherwise we would
not know about it.
It would not be in the news.

What are the shysters up to now ?

[XT225]

Why the heck would anyone waste a good (and expensive) missle on these objects? Why not just use some 50 calibre bullets or whatever ammo is on board to do the job;

There's actually a pretty simple explanation for that.

...and what is the explanation for that? Surely our CF-18's have some kind of machine gun ammo on board at least. You would think if they wanted to just bring the object down with the minimal amount of damage so that it could be assessed properly and maybe in bigger pieces, standard ammo would have been the way to go! Isn't that kind of like using a 10 guage shotgun to shoot a grouse? (there won't be much left).

[steven lloyd]

There's actually a pretty simple explanation for that.

...and what is the explanation for that? Surely our CF-18's have some kind of machine gun ammo on board at least.

If you're still asking that already asked and answered many times question you might want to reconsider your "news" sources.

ETA: simple explanation - imagine trying to shoot a tin can placed on a pole on the side of the highway from the window of a rocket car traveling down the road at 800 mph.

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[Silverstarqueen]

"Russian bombers in no way related to floating objects."
https://globalnews.ca/news/9487095/russ ... ska-norad/

Just passing thru?

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[seewood]

^^^ common radar reflector used on sailboats.

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[seewood]

There were ropes hanging under the object shot down over Lake Huron.

Makes me think of the meme where the fellow is all bandaged up in a hospital bed commenting about there I was minding my own business at 40,000 feet....

Biden commented tonight that all three were not military in origin.