Pentagon to launch blimps to guard against cruise missiles

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[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.

[goodnesswins]

There was one still there last year

[goodnesswins]

There was one still there last year

[Girlene]

This will also be used for surveillance.

[okie01]

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

OK. We'll take your word for it that a cruise missile, with its launch facility can't be stored in a freighter's hold or in a deckhouse and either raised or rolled into position.

It's impossible. Nobody could do that.

[Trod Upon]

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.

Remember the V-1, or our Regulus? Cruise missiles can be pretty damned simple.

[VRWC For Truth]

Chamber of Commerce pro-Shamnesty blimps.

[LyinLibs]

Surveillance is bad enough.

But what if the dirty moslem floats an EMP over every major city then triggers them all?

[az_gila]

No worries, the military transferred the Mexico border ones to Homeland Security - what could go wrong.../S

http://www.svherald.com/content/bill-hess/2013/08/24/358381

[clearcarbon]

Those are to protect comrade obama from any missile that manages to slip past his 320 million human shields.

[PGR88]

stationary blimps against cruise missiles travelling at the speed of sound?

Some lies are just so obvious it laughable.

[Joe Boucher]

the gubmint has one of these damn thing they send up in the lower mid Florida Keys
Supposedly to keep an eye on the drug trade as well as Cuba.
Rather imposing if you fly a small airplane and fly by it.

[Right Wing Assault]

old bama is hoping the missiles will bounce off the blimps.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Must be one of those new supersonic blimps!

[MeshugeMikey]

WIll they be festooned with Military insignia, or will they instead have a special O aka Obama insignia of some sort?

[nascarnation]

[MeshugeMikey]

as if the ObamaBlimps werent enough...

perhaps there will soon be Bumper-Blimp warfare in our own skies

oh thats right thats a green PEACE blimp they cant do that sort of thing

[clearcarbon]

"WIll they be festooned with Military insignia, or will they instead have a special O aka Obama insignia of some sort?"

If they're going to go to that much trouble to encourage the missiles to stop, they should also include his address and phone number.

[MeshugeMikey]

Ill bet we see..a Photographic likeness of The Great Leader on the ObamaBlimp

perhaps they'll look a bit.. like this?

[GreyFriar]

The blimps would have radar to detect incoming cruise missiles. Of course, there aren’t any air defense sites around DC any more and no standing air defense fighters. Thus the blimps will provide warning so that everyone can ‘duck and cover’ before the big boom.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”OK. We'll take your word for it that a cruise missile, with its launch facility can't be stored in a freighter's hold or in a deckhouse and either raised or rolled into position. “

Storing it is one thing, successfully launching it is another,

Its like that other freeper the other day who claimed an Iran ship off our coast is going to launch a nuke to blow up over Oklahoma.

Or the one who weeks ago told me I would get sick from handling chicken before I put it in the oven. The chicken bugs were going to go through my skin and not even soap and hot water could kill it. I cook it almost once per week with zero problems.

There must be some satisfaction in posting crazy warnings that never happen, but I don't get it.