“The Pentagon is blown away.
The news that the Pentagon will start using balloons against Russian hypersonic missiles should be taken primarily as a failure of the American missile defense program, ”he wrote on Telegram.
In the future, the US military may start inflating underwater balloons to counter Russian Poseidon unmanned underwater vehicles, Volodin joked.
Earlier, the Politico newspaper reported that the Pentagon intends to use balloons to track hypersonic missiles from Russia and China.