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19th Century Airship Technology for Port Security

Posted by samzenpus on from the eye-in-the-sky dept.

fenimor writes "Airships - known today mainly for advertising flyovers at football games - are the core of a new coastal surveillance system in development for the the U.S. Department of Defense. These stationary platforms 25 times the size of a Goodyear blimp will be equipped with an array of cutting-edge equipment for remote sensing, communications, and risk analysis, providing surveillance coverage over a surface area of 500,000 square miles from an altitude of 70,000 feet."

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  1. Meanwhile... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ...the workaday needs of security and counterterrorism continue to go underfunded.

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  2. Ground control.... by Malicious · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So, are they going to divert air traffic OVER the blimps? Or will the planes simply crash through the cables holding them in place?

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