Two enormous flying fortresses are scheduled to be tethered above the nation’s capital as part of an effort to boost air defenses... Called aerostats — the technical term for a blimp — the Pentagon has plans to deploy the giant airships over the Baltimore and Washington, DC area in 2014 in order to patrol the skies more effectively than ground-based radar systems and more inexpensively than manned surveillance planes.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 03:06:59 +0000
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