[gharman]

Cost differential is an interesting thing to consider if this were done at scale. That single missile cost ~$500K (plus flight time for the F22 isn't cheap). How much would each balloon be, especially if some were decoys without any real payload?

That said, drones vs ships seems like a starker cost differential than this.

[bamboozled]

On the other hand, I’ll ask again, what’s the point ? We have balloons flying around ? Cool ?