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Showing Original Post only (View all)Found in LBN: DC's new big-brother blimp. [View all]
WTF is this all about? I think Im starting to get paranoid. This thing can "see" 360 degrees & can scan the air, land, and sea for up to 340 miles.
Army's Giant Surveillance Blimp to Start Tracking Objects in DC Region
Source: Defense News
While Congress debates the merits of spending tens of millions of dollars to add missile interceptors on the East Coast while increasing the number already in place out West, a long-running developmental Army radar system is packing up and heading for Maryland.
From May 4 to June 14, Raytheons JLENS, or Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System, was put through its paces by about 100 soldiers during user assessment tests out in Utah, but the company announced today that the 74-foot-high tethered airship is now headed to the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland for a more ambitious operational assessment run by the US Northern Command.
The soldiers who were trained up to use the system in Utah will make the trip with the airship, but since JLENS will be running on a 24/7 basis once on the East Coastand tracking anything that flies, drives, or floats near the National Capital Regionmore soldiers will be trained to operate it before the assessments kick off in 2014.
Read more: http://blogs.defensenews.com/intercepts/2013/07/armys-giant-surveillance-blimp-to-start-tracking-objects-in-dc-region
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Satellites in geosynchronous orbit don't move in relation to their spot above earth.
EOTE
Jul 2013
#29
Cool, I am sure they will have no problem with me floating one up over some areas
The Straight Story
Jul 2013
#21