Friends on Facebook are still expressing their fears regarding the recent Chinese balloon overflight and thanking the Vanquisher of Corn Pop for saving them from this unarmed threat, which was neutralized by a $1 billion F-22 (cost estimated at $700 million per plane in pre-Biden money). Top Gun 1 had the F-14. Top Gun 2 had the F-18. How about a Top Gun 3 with Tom Cruise in an F-35 versus a fleet of unarmed Chinese balloons?
Some of the latest slow movers were shot out of the sky over Canada. Every contemporary movie needs some Black and Brown characters, e.g., as brilliant scientists who design equipment to track and kill the slow-moving menaces. Combining the two preceding sentences, the obvious choice to portray the Black and Brown characters is Justin Trudeau (he already has the costumes and makeup).
Speaking of Tom Cruise, here is the Church of Scientology’s cruise ship, Freewinds, docked in Aruba:
Of course, I am now telling everyone that this was our ship and that we spent sea days being audited, getting clear, and learning more about Xenu (the last part is sort of true; Royal Caribbean’s Vision of the Seas has a Zumba class led by the vivacious Peruvian cruise director Mey).
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Chinese baloons?
In a strange coincidence, a NOAA baloon might have gone missing, same time, same place.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/02/why-the-airforce-shot-down-a-us-weather-balloon.html
NOAA balloon’s are likely Made in China and so they would be Chinese balloons.
Top Gun 4, Orange Balloon Hunter: starting Tom Cruise and Donald Trump.
In Top Gun 4, we will need the United States Space Force to hunt and shoot down the Orange Man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_baby_balloon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Force
Seems that everyone is missing a balloon since the Aviator-Glasses in Chief needed to signal some mojo:
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/the-us-airforce-may-have-shot-down-an-amateur-radio-pico-balloon-over-canada/
The cost to the US compared to the cost to China for shooting down a balloon with a missile via F-35 must be at least 1000:1. What a waste of money.
If the Chinese wanted to film the US, why not rent a Cessna 172? Why bother risk creating an international incident with a weather balloon?
I don’t get it.
They fly the F-22 daily & shoot AIM-9X’s as part of training so it wouldn’t be surprising if the balloon defense was manely being used as a novel form of training.
Blowing things up in the sky to distract people from what they blew up in the sea:
How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline
Seymour Hersh
https://archive.is/lLTTk
The F-22s armed with the AIM-9X in particular was definitely a spectacular and expensive choice, but c’mon!
Top Gun III: Death Rotor absolutely must feature HELICOPTERS to fight the next fleet of unarmed Chinese drones! The helos work in partnership with our own AI-enhanced ChatGPT-enabled drones, one of which has a female voice and becomes Maverick’s love interest.
The helicopter pilots, etc., are armed with big, powerful digital cameras…
The reason the F-22 is as expensive as it is is that the Vietnam experience was so dreadfully awful for our captured pilots that our country’s leadership was willing to pay almost anything to not have that happen again. We could pave the sky with f-16s* for what 5th-generation fighters cost, but the political cost of having these bright young men tortured just offscreen is just too high, so we decided to make it impossible to shoot them down. They almost made John McCain president over it.
*under any kind of rational, non-captured procurement process