Doesn't usually work. There are over a thousand incursions by unmanned aircraft systems along the U.S.-Mexico border each month, per the NORAD commander: https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/370778... . They pretty much never result in shutting down air space or launching missiles.

Responding to a single party balloon with a giant laser, thus causing a saner government official to close the airspace because some moron is firing giant lasers into the air, is unusual. Probably not a usable asymmetric attack vector.

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gunapologist99 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

'saner govt official because moron firing giant lasers into the air' - lasers just go everywhere at once and hit everything in the air, into the stratosphere? it's a big sky and gets bigger the higher you go.

	▲	collingreen 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		lol, this is a great imply-but-don't-make-a-point from an account called gunapologist99. Is the implication here that someone firing laser weapons at things flying near the airport has no realistic danger for planes flying near the airport and therefore this was an overreaction?

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bakies 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

wow maybe we should stop giving the law enforcement orgs weapons of war

	▲	kelseyfrog 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		All cops should have a nuke.