Re: If a fighter pilots shoots down 5 UAV's?

George Z. Bush wrote:

You were regarded as an ace for shooting down 5 balloons.


But weren't there observers in those baskets defending themselves
with some sort of guns? Or was there some sort of glory attached to
shooting down an unmanned, unarmed sitting duck target? If there
was, it doesn't seem to have been worth much AFAIAC.


The guns were on the ground. An observation balloon was a high value
target, they were heavily defended with the finest antiaircraft weaponry of
the day.


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