Pentagon officials turned to the Air Force’s most advanced fighter jet and a well-tested missile to shoot down the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon
suspected Chinese surveillance balloon
flying at high altitude and without endangering lives and property on the ground. They turned to the Air Force’s most advanced fighter jet and a well-tested missile to do it. To complete the mission, defense officials had to shoot down a craft that had been flying as high as 65,000 feet on its weeklong traverse of North America, above than the ceiling of most Air Force jets, and do it so that the debris would fall within the U.S. territorial waters off the coast, not international seas.
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