{"id":10010,"date":"2023-02-15T21:18:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T21:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10010"},"modified":"2023-02-15T21:18:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T21:18:24","slug":"why-the-u-s-used-missiles-not-cheap-bullets-to-shoot-down-chinese-balloon-3-unidentified-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10010","title":{"rendered":"Why the U.S. used missiles, not cheap bullets, to shoot down Chinese balloon, 3 unidentified objects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;&#8221;the military&#8217;s ability to respond to balloons and similar craft is constrained by physics and the capabilities of current weapons,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2023\/02\/14\/missile-misfire-lake-huron-aerial-object\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Washington Post<\/em>&nbsp;reports<\/a>, and you can&#8217;t really pop a giant balloon with gunfire at 40,000 feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;You can fill a balloon full of bullet holes, and it&#8217;s going to stay at altitude,&#8221; David Deptula, a retired Air Force lieutenant general and fighter pilot,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2023\/02\/14\/missile-misfire-lake-huron-aerial-object\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tells the&nbsp;<em>Post<\/em><\/a>. The air pressure that high up doesn&#8217;t allow helium to freely escape through small holes, even if fighter jets flying by at hundreds of miles per hour can riddle the near-stationary balloon with bullets.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/why-u-used-missiles-not-125447249.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/why-u-used-missiles-not-125447249.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8221;the military&#8217;s ability to respond to balloons and similar craft is constrained by physics and the capabilities of current weapons,&#8221; The Washington Post reports, and you can&#8217;t really pop a giant balloon with gunfire at 40,000 feet.<br \/>\n&#8220;You can fill a balloon full of bullet holes, and it&#8217;s going to stay at altitude,&#8221; David Deptula, a retired Air Force lieutenant general and fighter pilot, tells the Post. The air pressure that high up doesn&#8217;t allow helium to freely escape through small holes, even if fighter jets flying by at hundreds of miles per hour can riddle the near-stationary balloon with bullets.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1004,1702,89,314,259,338,619,1055],"class_list":["post-10010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-aircraft","tag-balloons","tag-china","tag-international-relations","tag-military","tag-missiles","tag-united-states","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10011,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10010\/revisions\/10011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}