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

[Jeff Krauss]

Visual horizon at 10,000 ft = 106 nm, according to one reference.

At 12:19 PM 1/24/2014, Blair Thompson wrote:
> 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
>
>== == == ==
>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.
>== == == ==
>
>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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