[Scan-DC] Shared CBS News story: Pentagon to launch blimps to guar d against cruise missiles

[Blair Thompson]

>From yesterday's WaPo:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/blimplike-surveillance-crafts-set-to-deploy-over-maryland-heighten-privacy-concerns/2014/01/22/71a48796-7ca1-11e3-95c6-0a7aa80874bc_story.html

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Blimplike surveillance craft set to deploy over Maryland heighten privacy concerns

By Craig Timberg,
 
They will look like two giant white blimps floating high above I-95 in Maryland, perhaps en route to a football game somewhere along the bustling Eastern Seaboard. But their mission will have nothing to do with sports and everything to do with war.

The aerostats — that is the term for lighter-than-air craft that are tethered to the ground — are to be set aloft on Army-owned land about 45 miles northeast of Washington, near Aberdeen Proving Ground, for a three-year test slated to start in October. From a vantage of 10,000 feet, they will cast a vast radar net from Raleigh, N.C., to Boston and out to Lake Erie, with the goal of detecting cruise missiles or enemy aircraft so they could be intercepted before reaching the capital.
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I wouldn't have thought that an altitude of 10,000 would provide such extensive coverage.

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Alan Henney <alanhenney at aim.com>
To: Scan DC <Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [Scan-DC] Shared CBS News story: Pentagon to launch blimps to guard against cruise missiles
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:38:38 -0500

Pentagon to launch blimps to guard against cruise missiles
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