I have no real desire to see valuable architectural relics destroyed...
Its only a matter of a fairly short time until Hoodie boy is headed for the glue factory anyway
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Posted on 07/26/2013 10:07:48 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey
Don’t Be Alarmed by the Drone Blimps Hovering Over D.C. They’re Here to Stop Cruise Missiles
If America is attacked, we might be saved by blimps. No, not state-of-the-art jet fighters that can fly well beyond the speed of sound. But blimps: lumbering, relatively jovial blimps—the manatees of aviation. Within a year, a pair of souped-up $2.7 billion blimps (price includes R&D) will be floated 10,000 feet above the District of Columbia and act as a 340-mile-wide eye in the sky, detecting incoming missiles and the like.
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BLIMPS for THE PEOPLE!!
Can't detect low-flying cruise missiles in real time with them.
Despite the nonsense you see in the movies, with a low-earth satellite at best for any given spot on the ground you get a brief (minutes long) look at it every few days. Even a huge number of satellites still only allows you to see a given area part of a day. You don't get a continuous movie.
the WWII blimps cost what?
There are a number of potentially hostile countries that could easily strike DC with sea-launched cruise missiles. Our existing radars and satellites have limited to no capability to detect them.
I keep forgetting we're not supposed to care about National Security on FR, though, anymore.
Most of the money is for the extremely sophisticated sensors (radars, etc.) and the communications gear to transmit that information, not the Blimp itself, of course.
huh.....this isn’t a Candy Crowley thread....
‘They’ could re-coup some of the $$ by using them as sightseeing tours and/or placing ads on them.
$500,000 for each blimp itself, $1.3 billion for the camera’s that can zoom in through the cracks in your blinds, and track your infrared through the walls.
That's what I'm Sayin'...
We've already got enough Blimps in DC and NJ...
Cool now they can watch a cruise missile obliterate them real time.
Obviously the people in DC are getting very paranoid about citizens. One could wonder why.
After all the lies told by the fine folks in DC, excuse my cynicism.
$2.7 BILLION blimps .... R&D?... blimps have existed for a century!
This is just getting insane
Cruise missile #1 ---->>>> Slow, giant target blimp (like shooting fish in a barrel)
Cruise missile #2-n ---->>>> Whatever it damn well pleases
fifty cents says they are Made In CHINA to boot
Bad Dog Food..
Bad Baby Food.
Bad Drywall..
Bad Toothpaste...
Bad Toy Trains, Bad Steel Bolts for BRIDGES...and Now da da DA.....Faulty Blimps.
I hope they crash on the White House and Capitol
There are earlier reports from February about a Raytheon surveillance blimp coming "soon" to Aberdeen Proving Grounds NE of Baltimore for testing, but I don't know if this is the same, or some commercial blimp. There were no obvious markings on the blimp (from a distance anyway), and I can't find any local DC/Baltimore report about these blimps and what they might be from the past couple of days.
Anyone know?
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