Liberal blimps are very costly.
Posted on 07/26/2013 10:07:48 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey
Ive yet heard nothing regarding a blimps locale
“Liberal blimps are very costly”
THAR HE BLOWS!
My ignorance is on full display, but I fail to see how such a missile could be launched ‘low-flying’ from the start. Wouldn’t it need ‘horizontal view’ to home-in correctly?
And what would the eye-in-the-sky give them in the fog-of-war in terms of reaction time? 5min? They couldn’t scramble jets fast enough to take own a 747 on 9/11, but a cruise missile is just fine?
Lastly, I find it troubling that they presume that D.C. is a target rich environment in need of ‘protecting’ but not ANY OTHER city of either seaboard. That, to me, implies those in D.C. deserve protecting more than any other Citizen of the U.S.A.
There is a tethered aerostat in the Florida Keys. It operates at around 13000 feet and is charted on aviation charts. A couple of years ago a pilot of a general aviation aircraft struck one of the tethering cables and crashed into the ground. The air space around DC is much more congested and, if these aerostats are launched in the DC area it will only be a matter of time before some pilot hits a cable.
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