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wnkrshm
on Feb 6, 2023
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Why would a 21st century warplane shoot a balloon ...
Air to air missiles have proximity fuzes and the pattern of the shrapnel is roughly a disk normal to the missile - so not that precise.
Or do you think it was actually a laser-guided air-ground missile?
pohl
on Feb 6, 2023
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It was an AIM-9X Sidewinder, with the warhead removed.
euler_angles
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The missile clearly fuses, it had a warcranium. Where are you and others getting the idea that the missile had no warcranium?
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Or do you think it was actually a laser-guided air-ground missile?