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Pentagon to launch blimps to guard against cruise missiles
CBSlocal ^ | 1-24-14 | not attibuted

Posted on 01/24/2014 7:51:13 PM PST by MeshugeMikey

he Pentagon has discovered a gap in the defenses of Washington, D.C., and it's about to test a solution.

But depending on your point of view, the solution is either vital for national security or a threat to American privacy.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


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To: Cvengr

oh you SHOJLDNT HAVE...


21 posted on 01/24/2014 8:23:32 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: MeshugeMikey

“Mr. President, in case you haven’t noticed, we have aircraft carriers now, and computers, and satellites, and missiles, and radar, really cool technology. But Blimps? Blimps? Oh Boy, such low technology and defense.”


22 posted on 01/24/2014 8:23:51 PM PST by realcleanguy
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To: MeshugeMikey

This isn’t being done as some boondoggle to put money in a connected contractors pocket. Both the Navy and Air Force have been determined to keep any Lighter Than Air (LTA) systems from ever being deployed as they actually are more efficient in some ways than aircraft for some tasks. Now suddenly blips are going to be deployed as part of a cruise missile screen. This can only mean that there is a real threat not a potential one from some of our Muslim friends. The Saudis have enough money to buy systems from several countries (France for instance) and the Iranians are good customers of North Korea a country that has produced cruise missiles on the sly. So this tells me there is a real true threat and cruise missiles could only be thought of as a true strategic threat if we believe their war heads will be chemical, biological, or nuclear of some kind. So far the press is just reporting the story in a way guaranteed to make it disappear after a day or two.


24 posted on 01/24/2014 8:24:54 PM PST by robowombat
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To: Nervous Tick

Bingo.

Surveillance, not missile defense.


25 posted on 01/24/2014 8:27:07 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Anti-Complacency League! Baby!)
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To: TheGipperWasRight

Yes we need to protect against incoming Afghani Missles

Obama thought it only fair that we use last centuries technology in order to level the playing field.

Is but a small part of his Year Of Action

Equity In All Things...ya know


26 posted on 01/24/2014 8:30:14 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: Nervous Tick

theyre likely tiny drones.....


27 posted on 01/24/2014 8:30:50 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Cruise missiles launched to the US mainland?

Please!


28 posted on 01/24/2014 8:31:53 PM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: MeshugeMikey

Un-Tethered blimps just float away.........


29 posted on 01/24/2014 8:32:26 PM PST by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: realcleanguy

Im 67 years old. My Grandfather served on a blimp!

he never saw a computer in his life.

Blimps? in 2014? produced by a HUGE Obama Donor no doubt.


30 posted on 01/24/2014 8:33:43 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Like the old barrage balloons of WWII? The theory was a dive bomber might get entangled in the balloon cable and crash.


31 posted on 01/24/2014 8:34:15 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Any bet on private drones?


32 posted on 01/24/2014 8:35:07 PM PST by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects)
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To: bunkerhill7

thus increasing the DEMAND for further upramping of their production and sales...

Terry McAwful’s Global Blimping?


33 posted on 01/24/2014 8:35:33 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: Steamburg

Im ordering a fleet of em first thing Monday Morning


34 posted on 01/24/2014 8:36:49 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: Dallas59
Cruise missiles? From who?

Iran. Or some Islamic terrorists who were provided with cruise missiles by Iran.

35 posted on 01/24/2014 8:41:31 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media -- IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: sickoflibs
Cruise missiles launched to the US mainland?

From offshore merchant ships. Courtesy of Iran or Islamic terrorists supplied by Iran. Possibly nuclear-tipped.

It's not far-fetched. And the source ship, which would be scuttled with all hands, would leave the perp undetectable.

36 posted on 01/24/2014 8:47:45 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media -- IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: okie01; Jeff Head
From offshore merchant ships. Courtesy of Iran or Islamic terrorists supplied by Iran. Possibly nuclear-tipped. It's not far-fetched. And the source ship, which would be scuttled with all hands, would leave the perp undetectable.

Yep, that scenario has been thought of before.

37 posted on 01/24/2014 8:48:46 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Like the old barrage balloons of WWII? The theory was a dive bomber might get entangled in the balloon cable and crash.

These blimps have a different purpose -- unmanned surveillance, e.g., 24/7 radar that could detect a distant launch and track the approach, then be used to vector interceptor missiles.

Actually, they're called "Aerostats" and I've seen them used along the Southern border to provide wide-area surveillance for the purpose of inderdicting drugs or illegals.

38 posted on 01/24/2014 8:53:16 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media -- IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: okie01; Impy; NFHale; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj
RE :”Cruise missiles launched to the US mainland?
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From offshore merchant ships. Courtesy of Iran or Islamic terrorists supplied by Iran. Possibly nuclear-tipped. “

Look, not just any ship can launch a cruise missile.
They cant just sit it on a deck and just launch it by lighting a fuse with a match. They are way more complicated than that.
I bet with all Irans boasting they never demonstrated being able to launch one from a ship.

Just the other day a freeper was claiming here that a Iranian ship would sit of our coast and drop an EMP bomb over Kansas to shut down all electronics for hundreds of miles.

Let me go on the record here : neither of these things are happening.

39 posted on 01/24/2014 9:14:52 PM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: diogenes ghost

No, they are still in use. Depending on the time of year there are 3 aerostats up near here in Yuma Az. There is always 1 up all year. Border Patrol and the Marine Corps use it.


40 posted on 01/24/2014 9:24:58 PM PST by sean327 (God created all men equal, then some become Marines!)
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