250-Foot Hybrid Airship To Spy Over Afghanistan

Toe, The writes "Gizmodo details the Long Endurance Multi-intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) (based on the P-791), a spyship from US Army's Space and Missile Defense Command capable of hovering at 20,000 feet. Planned for deployment in Afghanistan, the ship can float for three weeks and carry well over a ton of payload, apparently surveillance equipment. The video on Gizmodo of the P-791 shows that these ships are a hybrid not only of both buoyancy and propulsive lift, but also of both awe and hilarity."

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Re:Yeah right

[Anonymous Coward]

"From my point of view, everyone who signed up to invade Afghanistan and Iraq betrayed me, betrayed the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, and betrayed the citizens of his respective nation" Really... Betrayal you say? Did ANYONE in Congress say upon campaigning "I will not vote to invade another country"? Did any of them say "I will not vote to invade another country....except this once..."? No, they did not. It was pretty cut and dried - they either were for it or against, not a lot of fence straddling on Afghanistan. What "duty" to the Afghanistan and Iraq citizens did the USA have prior to invading that they supposedly betrayed? None, that's the correct answer. "When it comes to randomly invading countries" What random invasions are you referring to? Cause whether I agreed with the logic or not, there were some pretty clear statements as to why the USA invaded, and some clear reasons why we're still there, and some clear reasons why we cannot just up and leave. Please quit talking out of your ass.

From TFA

[xerxesVII]

Probably the most insightful thing I've read about this, courtesy of a little fellow named Hilo:

There's like an adult back, it's someone has zero defends my sense an adult back, it's like and no air play, it just offense an adult hitting fundamentally unfair about should I cheer for rockets to him?

There's someone has zero defense or rockets to hitting someone from 2000 feet with a huge cannon when that someone from 20000 feet with a kid, yeah he'll with a kid, yeah he'll with a huge cannon when that should I cheer force or hit back, it

Re:Sitting duck

[mapkinase]

I think

No, you don't.