The Pentagon is tracking a Chinese spy balloon

[Alessan]

@Sooner

Air to Air radars and missiles have all sorts of filters to insure they do lock on to anything but a fast-moving objects, that behave like an aircraft. This is to insure they are not fooled by countermeasures an enemy aircraft might deploy. But I suspect this also eliminates the possibility of their use against a balloon.

If the balloon is big and slow, don’t fire air-to-air missiles - fire air-to-ground missiles. If they can hit a tank, they can hit a balloon.