User blog comment:Riley Heligo/Seriously EA?/@comment-4118072-20120217142609/@comment-774818-20120217181923

In regards to the landing in the sea issue, that's probably not too much of a problem, provided they can get 'em high enough... In the North America, the predominate winds are from west to east. If they were launched from, say, Los Angeles they'd float further inland.

The Japanese tried something similar in WWII, except they had explosives attached instead of video games. It wasn't very effective. I think you can count the number of people they managed to kill with this technique on one hand.