> Current aircraft is not capable of reaching those balloons

Is a missile a form of aircraft? Because there's variants of the Standard Missile which can hit a low earth orbit satellite, with the right timing, fired from effectively zero velocity and at sea level from a frigate.

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gaigalas an hour ago | parent [-]

Well, it's not reusable. You're wasting a resource destined for hypersonic deterrence on some sheets of mylar that float around.

I mean, you can do that, but it would be a tremendous embarrassment.

	▲	walrus01 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> Well, it's not reusable No it's not. And it's indeed very costly. But on the grand scale of things of what the US DoD spends per day as a fully loaded lifetime cost to operate a single SSN, SSBN or aircraft carrier, it's a drop in the bucket. They spend absurd amounts of funds on all sorts of things.