The AI powered USAF was also used to shoot down the 1p ballons that were freed by some party goer. AI needs more input so to fill the statistics with mean/median/mode, China has decided to sent at least a Billion balloons so that the USAF AI powered jets can get better trained on them and can learn that 1 balloon can be shot down with 1 bullet.. you do not need to throw a missile at it.