What’s gonna save us from the enemy blimps?
Cruise missiles? From who? Why not strengthen the Navy?
Does that CBS anchor have some kind of neurological disease? If he doesn’t then I want to make fun of him for talking so slow.
These blimps actually have sophisticated technology that can locate YouTube videos that inflame Muslims. It’s Barack’s and Hillary’s response to Benghazi.
So who are we afraid of now?
These blimps are to watch YOU, silly. :-)
You can’t believe every detail of what they say.
Who know?
Barry the paranoid narcissist.....does he think blimps will protect him from a military coup?
Ha ha ha haaaaaaa!
The actual name for the thing is an ‘Aerostat’. They were in use for several years along the southern borders, used to detect aerial drug runners. I believe they have been removed from there (WOD must be over).
I thought this was satire.
Brits tried this back in WWII but ‘buz’ bombs aren’t modern cruise missiles.
what have we learned?
all fuehrers love blimps.
It might be that someone has demonstrated the ability to effectively counter those other methods. Could even be the case that some of the birds got hacked, so now we’re down to blimps. Or, as is probable under the current regime, they are in some way directed against the citizenry.
“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.”
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.
Cruise missiles launched to the US mainland?
Please!
Un-Tethered blimps just float away.........
Like the old barrage balloons of WWII? The theory was a dive bomber might get entangled in the balloon cable and crash.
Any bet on private drones?