Big Bro is testing Big Blimp for Big Eyes and Ears!
Feb 11, 2015 14:39:36 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2015 14:39:36 GMT -6
Indeed...it's the blimps for us!
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They must think we're a real special kind of stupid out here, if they expect we'll believe that is strictly an anti-missile radar and tracking station. Umm.. Yeah.. right. It doesn't even pass a basic logic test for that purpose.
300 mile range in diameter. Okie...and it's over Maryland. So, they'd have us believe that in 3 cardinal directions and part of 2 mixed bearings....this is scanning AMERICAN SOIL for a Cruise Missile launch. (rolls eyes)
Are they SO sure of precise origin for a missile that they can just casually disregard so MUCH of the coverage footprint for what, in their stated purpose, would be nothing at all worth watching??
Would this not make sense about 200 miles OFF SHORE and set in a way to work in those conditions? After all, I promise folks...Cruise Missiles fly more than 300 miles. They can be launched from quite a bit further out to sea than THIS can currently see.
I checked around a bit and found this in an article looking at US Navy shipboard anti-missile systems. As he points out? If something like R2-D2 is all that remains? Jump overboard...you're about to sink.
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Going by his numbers, and assuming the blimp could get a clear tracking picture from maximum engagement range? 300 miles gives just over 6 minutes warning. (Estimates I'd grown up hearing were 7 minutes for a sub based missile off our coast...so it's gotten a hair worse, I suppose).
So...
"Mr President! There is a Missile INBOUND! NOW! ...Sir! We tracked launch 90 seconds ago....(for time to confirm, get past disbelief, send messages and physically reach the President)...you now have just over 4 minutes and 30 seconds to decide a reponse!"
....wait..but he doesn't have that long, does he? A response will take another 30-60 seconds to authorize, give orders to the relevant units for, and have men START to move on systems that are NOT trip-wire armed anymore. (That ended shortly after the Cold War). So...he has more like 3.5 minutes...if he wants to give less than a 50/50 chance of intercept, and then by that time, within easy visual distance of Americans driving the highways of the East Coast area under threat.
Does this sound likely..again, in a gimped position to start with...as the reason for this blimp?
....or might it be a wee more likely as an extension of the equipment places like the NSA and NRO use every day, to keep very close track of us all?
I vote for eyes and ears...not simply an early warning system to an attack we'd be VERY unlikely to respond to in time, the first wave, anyway.
Aberdeen Proving Ground (United States) (AFP) - On a crisp winter's day, a tethered blimp almost as big as a football field slowly rises into the blue Maryland sky, casting its radar eye over greater Washington and well beyond.
The Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Elevated Netted Sensor System, better known as JLENS, is intended to spot low-flying cruise missiles amid thousands of aircraft in this corner of the US east coast.
"This balloon is a radar that covers, oh, (a radius of) 300 miles (485 kilometers) -- about the size of Texas -- to allow us to see threats at a further distance out," said Colonel Frank Rice, commander of air defense operations for the US capital region.
The Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Elevated Netted Sensor System, better known as JLENS, is intended to spot low-flying cruise missiles amid thousands of aircraft in this corner of the US east coast.
"This balloon is a radar that covers, oh, (a radius of) 300 miles (485 kilometers) -- about the size of Texas -- to allow us to see threats at a further distance out," said Colonel Frank Rice, commander of air defense operations for the US capital region.
They must think we're a real special kind of stupid out here, if they expect we'll believe that is strictly an anti-missile radar and tracking station. Umm.. Yeah.. right. It doesn't even pass a basic logic test for that purpose.
300 mile range in diameter. Okie...and it's over Maryland. So, they'd have us believe that in 3 cardinal directions and part of 2 mixed bearings....this is scanning AMERICAN SOIL for a Cruise Missile launch. (rolls eyes)
Are they SO sure of precise origin for a missile that they can just casually disregard so MUCH of the coverage footprint for what, in their stated purpose, would be nothing at all worth watching??
Would this not make sense about 200 miles OFF SHORE and set in a way to work in those conditions? After all, I promise folks...Cruise Missiles fly more than 300 miles. They can be launched from quite a bit further out to sea than THIS can currently see.
I checked around a bit and found this in an article looking at US Navy shipboard anti-missile systems. As he points out? If something like R2-D2 is all that remains? Jump overboard...you're about to sink.
The profoundly counter-cultural catch for Navy commanders, Clark admits, is that they’d have to let enemy missiles get within 35 miles (30 nautical miles) of their ship before shooting them down. I did some quick calculations based on this distance and the reported top speeds of modern anti-ship weapons like China’s 1.5-ton YJ-12. Then I did a double-take and asked Clark to check my math. He confirmed the figures: At Mach 3.5, a cruise missile can cover 30 nautical miles in approximately forty-seven seconds.
Going by his numbers, and assuming the blimp could get a clear tracking picture from maximum engagement range? 300 miles gives just over 6 minutes warning. (Estimates I'd grown up hearing were 7 minutes for a sub based missile off our coast...so it's gotten a hair worse, I suppose).
So...
"Mr President! There is a Missile INBOUND! NOW! ...Sir! We tracked launch 90 seconds ago....(for time to confirm, get past disbelief, send messages and physically reach the President)...you now have just over 4 minutes and 30 seconds to decide a reponse!"
....wait..but he doesn't have that long, does he? A response will take another 30-60 seconds to authorize, give orders to the relevant units for, and have men START to move on systems that are NOT trip-wire armed anymore. (That ended shortly after the Cold War). So...he has more like 3.5 minutes...if he wants to give less than a 50/50 chance of intercept, and then by that time, within easy visual distance of Americans driving the highways of the East Coast area under threat.
Does this sound likely..again, in a gimped position to start with...as the reason for this blimp?
....or might it be a wee more likely as an extension of the equipment places like the NSA and NRO use every day, to keep very close track of us all?
I vote for eyes and ears...not simply an early warning system to an attack we'd be VERY unlikely to respond to in time, the first wave, anyway.
