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Pentagon to deploy huge blimps over Washington, DC for 360-degree surveillance
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| 07/26/2013
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Posted on 07/26/2013 2:13:50 AM PDT by TexGrill
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To: TexGrill
Government rushing to protect... government.
To: TexGrill
Will there be a Colonel Blimp to run them?
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posted on
07/26/2013 5:29:30 AM PDT
by
PUGACHEV
To: TexGrill
Hey Obama, the year 1916 called. They want their technology back.
To: Justa
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posted on
07/26/2013 5:43:50 AM PDT
by
Roccus
To: TexGrill
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posted on
07/26/2013 5:45:24 AM PDT
by
Lucky9teen
(“The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.” ~ Edward Abbey)
To: TexGrill
The question is, why bother putting up a surveillance and fire control radar to find and intercept threats (eg. cruise missiles) if you have no means of intercepting them? Sure, AF planes can scramble and meet inbound aircraft. But cruise missiles? Or are they going to deploy several Patriot batteries around DC now?
Methinks this isn't about using the radar for its stated purpose. This is a persistent surveillance platform that probably has a lot of optics installed too.
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posted on
07/26/2013 5:56:49 AM PDT
by
ThunderSleeps
(Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
To: TexGrill
didn’t we just remove a few blimps from the southern border that were providing southern border surveillance?
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posted on
07/26/2013 5:57:35 AM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: Flick Lives
That was the photo I was looking for.
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posted on
07/26/2013 5:58:41 AM PDT
by
DYngbld
(I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!! (this post approved by the NSA))
To: Gaffer
There is also a tethered aerostat in the Florida Keys. A couple of years ago a pilot of a light aircraft did not check the Notams before flying and struck one of the tethering cables at about 13000 feet. Makes a person wonder why the government would want two such tethered aerostats above an urban area?
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posted on
07/26/2013 6:21:25 AM PDT
by
ops33
(Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
To: TexGrill
Since when is the military suppose to “watch” our cities?
To: TexGrill
A friend got some of the tether they use on the Mexican border blimps. It is the best tow rope I ever saw. About an inch in diameter rope and you can’t bust it no matter how hard you jerk the stuck vehicle.
To: bert
I saw them outside of Alpine, Texas a couple of weeks ago. We saw it in the sky from miles away. As we passed the station, it looks like the pic in the thread with tether, station and blimp.
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posted on
07/26/2013 7:41:58 AM PDT
by
nixonsnose
(you never know how much pee splatters until you are standing at the urinal in flip flops.)
To: TexGrill
"The airships are part of Raytheons Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System, or JLENS, and when all is said and done theyll offer the United States military what the defense contractor calls an affordable elevated, persistent over-the-horizon sensor system that relies on a powerful integrated radar system to detect, track and target a variety of threats. " Starting with Tea Partiers.
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posted on
07/26/2013 7:44:16 AM PDT
by
Colonel_Flagg
(Army dad. And damned proud.)
To: TexGrill
Are we back in WWII with barrage balloons?
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posted on
07/26/2013 7:48:37 AM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: Justa
Scud on a tub. A freighter or submarine operating off the east coast of the U.S.
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posted on
07/26/2013 8:34:05 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
To: eartick
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posted on
07/26/2013 10:11:14 AM PDT
by
Hulka
To: bert
Not so “short range.”
Many cruise missiles fly very long distances.
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posted on
07/26/2013 10:12:20 AM PDT
by
Hulka
To: Hulka
Last time I was down by La India I did not see the blimp on the tether or on the ground.
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posted on
07/26/2013 3:10:53 PM PDT
by
eartick
(Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
To: eartick
Oh. . .I should have been more clear; a couple of months ago, in May, I was on I-10 in New Mexico and saw a tether and a blimp mile to the south. Mobile perhaps? (This was not a usual advert blimp or a dirigible. . .it was tethered and I estimate over 10,000 feet up.) Maybe different blimp? Maybe new blimp at new location? Testing? Who knows. . .
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posted on
07/27/2013 6:46:36 AM PDT
by
Hulka
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