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Breaking: 2 fighter jets track JLENS blimp that has broken free of its tether in Maryland
FoxNews.com ^ | October 28, 2015 | Foxnews.Com

Posted on 10/28/2015 1:23:27 PM PDT by Biggirl

BREAKING NEWS: A JLENS blimp that has been tethered at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland has broken free Wednesday and is being tracked by two fighter jets traveling over Pennsylvania at 16,000 feet, a NORAD spokesman said.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland; US: Pennsylvania; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: blimp; jlens; maryland; military; norad; pennsylvania; radarblimp; runaway
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1 posted on 10/28/2015 1:23:28 PM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...
OOPS!

Maryland "Freak State" DANG!

2 posted on 10/28/2015 1:25:44 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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3 posted on 10/28/2015 1:26:32 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Biggirl

4 posted on 10/28/2015 1:29:32 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: Biggirl
Don't believe your government. It's the Russians. They're attacking.
5 posted on 10/28/2015 1:29:58 PM PDT by McGruff (Trump-Cruz 2016. Make America Great Again.)
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To: Biggirl

Won’t the jets stall out if they track a slow moving blimp?


6 posted on 10/28/2015 1:30:15 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Obama's Iran nuclear deal - The Devil is in the details.)
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To: Biggirl

Uncontrolled Drone!
Get the KY drone-killer dude with the shotgun.
Or James Bond (cue theme tune...)
Or Chuck Norris.


7 posted on 10/28/2015 1:36:01 PM PDT by SakoL61R (Chobani yogurt tastes like old, wet carpet to me.)
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To: Biggirl

It’s crashed in PA.


8 posted on 10/28/2015 1:37:40 PM PDT by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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Operation Tom Brady is deemed a success.


9 posted on 10/28/2015 1:38:51 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: Old Yeller

Stall?
Naw, dirty it up, come in slow over the top, ease back and light the burner to melt a hole in the top.

Save the 20MM for ISIS.
Wait, that would be 23....


10 posted on 10/28/2015 1:39:21 PM PDT by SakoL61R (Chobani yogurt tastes like old, wet carpet to me.)
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To: Biggirl

Blimps must have gotten faster, or our jets have gotten slower.

And we need 2? Is that a typical government featherbedding?


11 posted on 10/28/2015 1:40:20 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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They use a special flight path that makes a lot of 'Z' shaped turns. Same way they track a little, slow Cessna.

That was my understanding, anyway.

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

/johnny

12 posted on 10/28/2015 1:40:43 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: Old Yeller

As soon as it gets over an unpopulated area the jets are going to shoot it down. There goes $180 million down the toilet. Somebody is going to be on latrine duty for the duration.


13 posted on 10/28/2015 1:41:03 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Biggirl
It is balloon...
14 posted on 10/28/2015 1:44:09 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: JRandomFreeper
Our jets have radar. They don't actually have to travel behind it the whole way to follow, as some seem to think.

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

They will correct us both regardless of being right or wrong.

15 posted on 10/28/2015 1:44:10 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Biggirl

It crashed in a wooded area near Muncy, PA

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3293852/Fighter-jets-track-military-blimp-drifting-Pennsylvania.html


16 posted on 10/28/2015 1:44:40 PM PDT by glock rocks (I don't always talk to liberals, but when I do, I order the large fries.)
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The blimp was spotted over Bloomsburg, Pa. dragging its 6,700-foot cable. The cable reportedly damaged area infrastructure and caused power outages.

Good Lord. Could you imagine sitting at your table for breakfast and a giant cable ripping through the middle of your kitchen?

17 posted on 10/28/2015 1:44:53 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Biggirl
The USS Tom Brady


18 posted on 10/28/2015 1:47:54 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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Had to look it up. Noy just a “ballon”.

http://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/jlens/

from their site.

Airplanes, drones and cruise missiles pose a significant threat to people, population centers, key infrastructure and our military. That’s where JLENS, a blimp-borne radar system made by Raytheon, comes in.

JLENS, which is short for Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System, is a system of two aerostats, or tethered airships, that float 10,000 feet in the air. The helium filled aerostats, each nearly as long as a football field, carry powerful radars that can protect a territory roughly the size of Texas from airborne threats....


19 posted on 10/28/2015 1:51:37 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled-...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Autonomous User

Need a little stiffener?


20 posted on 10/28/2015 1:53:13 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is circumstance. Three times is enemy action.)
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