Shooting down the suspected Chinese spy balloon is harder than it seems, a former Navy pilot told Insider. Engaging it is no easy task, and attempting to do so puts people on the ground at risk ...

“An F-22, which costs $85,000 an hour to fly, used a $450,000 missile to take down a $12 hobby balloon belonging to the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade, all so Biden could prove his ...

US tracked suspected Chinese spy balloon for 5 days before shooting it down over the Atlantic. George Petras Jennifer Borresen Stephen J. Beard Javier Zarracina. USA TODAY. Hear this story.

F-22 fighter jets and a B-52 bomber fly over South Korea during the an air drill on December 20, 2022 and, inset, an Israeli-made surveillance Aerostat Balloon pictured in Ahmedabad on July 13, 2018.

Conservatives are fantasizing about shooting down the alleged Chinese spy balloon themselves using common firearms, forgetting how gravity works × Skip to main content ...

A lack of clarity about how the U.S. plans to resolve those two propositions, including by shooting the balloon down at a later point, isn’t necessarily harmful.

The U.S. military says a single sidewinder missile from an F-22 Raptor shot down a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina at 2:39 p.m. on Saturday.

Leaders in America and China are responding to the United States shooting down a suspected Chinese spy balloon after it traveled through U.S. airspace. Saturday, February 4th 2023, ...

China threatened to punish the US on Wednesday for shooting down its massive balloon. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Beijing "will take countermeasures" against the US. Beijing has ...