Failure will cost you at least $400,000. The missile landed in Lake Huron. Investigations into the flying objects are ongoing.
When a mysterious flying object was shot down over the United States, not everything went smoothly on Sunday: as American authorities admitted on Tuesday, the pilot of an F-16 fighter missed the target with the first rocket. “We are aware that the first missile launched on Sunday missed its target,” White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters in Washington.
The missile landed “straight” into Lake Huron on the US-Canada border. US Chief of Staff Mike Milley said in Brussels that the missile “dropped harmlessly into the waters of Lake Huron”. The misfire was not cheap: a used Sidewinder type missile costs at least 400,000 dollars, equivalent to about 375,000 euros. The second missile fired hit its target.
kills for several days
At the end of last week, American fighters shot down three flying objects over the US state of Alaska, Canada and Lake Huron during three days. The US military operations followed the crash of an alleged Chinese spy balloon over the US East Coast on February 4.
Little is known about the other three flying objects, and the remains have yet to be recovered. Kirby said on Tuesday that there was nothing to suggest the objects were part of China’s “spy balloon program” or that they were “definitely” used for foreign espionage. Ultimately they could be balloons “simply attached to commercial or research facilities and therefore harmless”.
(APA/AFP)