One already has.
Can’t wait for one to crash into the White House
To provide that security, though, the Army will send its integrated pair of airships — around 75 yards in length each — high into the sky carrying “powerful radars that can look deep into enemy territory.” First, however, the residents of the metropolitan Washington, DC area — and those in around a dozen states stretching the mid-Atlantic into New England — will be asked to ignore a pair of sophisticated spying machines
I guess we all know how DC feels about us now.
[BTW - this is a radar-upgraded Aerostat like that used at Ft. Huachuca for the last 20 odd years to look into the Mexican border for drug traffickers - a tethered balloon with a radar]
Easy pickens!
It should be a comfort to those in DC, who instead of monitored by invisible satellites can just look into the sky and see that they’re being watched by big brother, all the time.
Huge blimps? Maybe the female members of the CBC will finally start earning their pay checks.
Raytheon’s Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System,
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Let’s call this thing what it is.
It’s for spying on United States Citizens.
It certainly isn’t being placed there to look for Cruise missiles. That is if this story is real and not somebodies idea of a stupid joke.
What is Washington, D.C. afraid of?
In order to surveil Washington, it would not have to be anywhere near Washington proper. The problem with cruise missiles is that they can literally “fly under the radar”. A surface based microwave radar can only see targets once they are close enough that they above the horizon, which means for good coverage, you need to have a great number of radar stations. An airborne radar, like AWACS or JLENS can see targets near the surface for hundreds of miles. They can use Doppler to distinguish fast moving cruise missiles and aircraft from vehicles and ground returns.
I’m wondering if they’ve created a balloon borne JSTARS capable of tracking a single Human on the ground as well as all the vehicular traffic?
At the least though this does demonstrate a few things, paranoia is but one of them.
I keep picturing Rosie, Christie, Michael Moore and Jerry Nadler floating around overhead. Maybe a dug-up Teddy, too.
Why don’t they tether one to IRS HQ?
Coming to a town near you soon.
We need to dig George Orwell up, remove Lincoln from the chair at his memorial and seat old George in it so he can see that he could actually watch life play out by the game-plan he wrote about in his book 1984.
WE HAVE DUPLICATED THE WRITINGS OF 1984 IN REAL LIFE!
Don’t worry, Moochie will declare them too fat and have them grounded.
Government rushing to protect... government.
Will there be a Colonel Blimp to run them?
Hey Obama, the year 1916 called. They want their technology back.
