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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: diogenes ghost

There was one still there last year


41 posted on 01/24/2014 9:27:16 PM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: diogenes ghost

There was one still there last year


42 posted on 01/24/2014 9:27:16 PM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

This will also be used for surveillance.


43 posted on 01/24/2014 9:30:09 PM PST by Girlene (Hey, NSA!)
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To: sickoflibs; Impy; NFHale; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj
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.

44 posted on 01/24/2014 9:35:29 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media -- IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: sickoflibs
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.
45 posted on 01/24/2014 9:46:02 PM PST by Trod Upon (Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Chamber of Commerce pro-Shamnesty blimps.


46 posted on 01/24/2014 9:47:28 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Surveillance is bad enough.

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


47 posted on 01/24/2014 10:40:42 PM PST by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: All

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


48 posted on 01/24/2014 10:41:07 PM PST by az_gila
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To: MeshugeMikey

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


49 posted on 01/24/2014 11:12:07 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: MeshugeMikey

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

Some lies are just so obvious it laughable.


50 posted on 01/25/2014 12:25:45 AM PST by PGR88
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To: MeshugeMikey

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.


51 posted on 01/25/2014 3:21:22 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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To: rsobin

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


52 posted on 01/25/2014 3:59:12 AM PST by Right Wing Assault
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To: MeshugeMikey

Must be one of those new supersonic blimps!


53 posted on 01/25/2014 5:41:12 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ("There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: clearcarbon

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


54 posted on 01/25/2014 7:01:08 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: MeshugeMikey

55 posted on 01/25/2014 7:08:21 AM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: nascarnation

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


56 posted on 01/25/2014 7:11:11 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: MeshugeMikey
"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.
57 posted on 01/25/2014 7:17:54 AM PST by clearcarbon
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To: clearcarbon
Ill bet we see..a Photographic likeness of The Great Leader on the ObamaBlimp

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


58 posted on 01/25/2014 7:28:16 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: PGR88

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.


59 posted on 01/25/2014 8:22:29 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: okie01; Impy; NFHale; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj
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.

60 posted on 01/25/2014 4:48:53 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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