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US Pentagon Plans For a Spy Blimp
nloop writes "The Pentagon is intending to develop a new spy ship — a dirigible. At 65,000 feet it would provide a 10 year, solar power based, unblinkingly intricate and continuous view of the surface via radar surveillance. Because of its altitude it would be safe from surface-to-air missiles and most aircraft. A 1/3-scale prototype, now being designed, is 'known as ISIS, for Integrated Sensor Is the Structure, because the radar system will be built into the structure of the ship. ... 'If successful, the dirigible... could pave the way for a fleet of spy airships, military officials said.'"
crap when did iraq move to another planet?
Or did the military get annoyed at 24 hours and made it a standard 25 when i wasn't looking?
what really gets me is that they are building uav's which can loiter at 65,000 on solar power. why use a much slower dirigible?
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.