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Blimp-like aerostats are heading to D.C. area
WASHINGTON - The blimp-like aircraft called aerostats are designed to protect against terrorist attacks from thousands of feet above the clouds. Soon, they are coming to the Washington, D.C. area. The aerostats are filled with helium and are three-fourths of the size of a football field. They fly up to 10,000 feet above sea level while tethered to mobile stations on the ground. They carry powerful, 360-degree radars that can see threats beyond the horizon, alerting the military of potential… (wtop.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I don't think is a good idea ,there is to many airplanes fly in this area ( more of them VFR ),like a Washington resident and you see the sky with your soons how you explaine them that you are not in the 2 War .
What will protect us from the (you name them) on the ground and in the Capitol?
Does anyone thing terrorists would try the very same method again? just what a bankrupt country needs to do.. piss away more money on useless showcasing.
sounds rediculous..publicising the top secrets ha ha ..better send emails to all the terrorists instead !!!!
This is nothing new! They had a couple of these in the Florida keys at least 30 years ago.
I used to fly down there from Tampa and always made sure I avoided the Prohibited airspace around them. My cousin worked on them until his foot got caught in a guy rope while launching it. He was carried up about 20ft. before he got loose, broke his ankle and retired from the job. One was a downlooking radar to catch drug smugglers or other scarry stuff out there:-)the other one was to broadcast propaganda to Cuba. A waste and a hazard to navigation then and the same now. Just more money for the defence contractors and more toys for the military. What's going to attack us that our ships and aircraft already deployed can't detect. The boogy man they try to keep us scared of does'nt have the weapons and means to deliver them unles the US sells it to them, which would'nt be too far fetched.
I used to fly down there from Tampa and always made sure I avoided the Prohibited airspace around them. My cousin worked on them until his foot got caught in a guy rope while launching it. He was carried up about 20ft. before he got loose, broke his ankle and retired from the job. One was a downlooking radar to catch drug smugglers or other scarry stuff out there:-)the other one was to broadcast propaganda to Cuba. A waste and a hazard to navigation then and the same now. Just more money for the defence contractors and more toys for the military. What's going to attack us that our ships and aircraft already deployed can't detect. The boogy man they try to keep us scared of does'nt have the weapons and means to deliver them unles the US sells it to them, which would'nt be too far fetched.
Forget the aerostats, why not just paint a big "X" on the Capital bldg., then we could vote again and perhaps get an effective government reestablished?