Not unless you know a way to reduce the molecular weight of helium. A given volume of helium is always able to lift exactly the same mass. They could lift more by switching to hydrogen; but that has a nasty habit of actually leaking through the ballon membrane or of combusting. And once again, the lifting power per volume is fixed. You can’t really miniaturize lighter than air vehicles
The part they want could be released from the ballon, it could have a way to bring itself down, or quite simply, they could shoot it like others are wanting to. Not that hard of a concept. That’s if there is anything worth retrieving in or attached to it. The point I was making was if there was a piece left when I took it out of the sky, they darn sure wouldn’t get it back.Like they ever even planned to get it back. How exactly would they do that? Put it in reverse or just hope it gets blown all the way back around the earth?
With ANY gun actually. The maximum altitude effectiveness I know of for any anti aircraft artillery was right at 60k feet and I don’t believe it is in service anymore. SAMS have pretty much replaced it.
Damn. I thought it was because most black people are smart enough to live where they don't freeze their asses off.
Monty Python had a great sketch where Count Zeppelin would lose his mind whenever someone called it a balloon
Asia's a big place. I guess you're referring to East Asia. Japan's advanced past mediocrity, and Korea and ROC are getting there. There's a move to boost innovation in a lot of the region, as leaders saw that stressing rote learning at the expense of logic and creativity put them at a disadvantage. In short, that gap is closing.
