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In reply to the discussion: That fucking blimp cost 1.4b dollars. [View all]Divernan
(15,480 posts)69. Still waiting to hear how & by whom the blimp was shot down.
Well, we needed these more than new hospitals for vets, amiright? No money to expand Medicare. Raise the retirement age on social security. Ain't America great? (sarcasm)
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/258609-pentagon-army-blimp-actually-still-deflating
The blimp traveled almost 200 miles north at 30 miles per hour, reaching an altitude of 16,000 feet before it lost altitude and speed, landing in northeastern Pennsylvania. Another Pentagon spokesman confirmed reports that the 240-foot blimp was shot down, but did not know how close to the ground the blimp was when it happened.
It is not clear who shot down the blimp.
The system consists of two aerostats: one that provides broad surveillance, and the other that provides more specific surveillance. The blimp that provides more specific surveillance is the one that broke free.
The blimps were both flying at about 6,800 feet, and were tethered to the ground at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., when one of the cables broke near the base. The blimp then drifted along with the about 6,800-foot long cable hanging down. It snapped power lines and left tens of thousands of residents in central Pennsylvania without power. The Pentagon is working with local communities and residents to gather an assessment of how much damage was caused, and how much it will cost to repair it.
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I'm not even sure Americans are allowed to know how much money Raytheon sucks from the life blood of
Monk06
Oct 2015
#4
"You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has
underahedgerow
Oct 2015
#59
Do you really think the people of this country want to cut, say, Social Security to
Marr
Nov 2015
#105
Yeah, and got a hell of a lot more return than we did for this wayward blimp, too.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2015
#57
And ironically, that sentence, said with much conviction, doesn't really mean anything.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2015
#65
Blimps, hammers, toilet seats.. ad infinitum. What is a billion dollars here or there?
Paper Roses
Oct 2015
#20
1982 - I remember it well for some odd reason despite thinking it happened in the seventies
Brother Buzz
Oct 2015
#49
"...there are only two of these blimps in..." < One.One of these blimps in the world...
jtuck004
Oct 2015
#50
Um uh, you're so right. When we get into the mass production of fucking blimps
Warren Stupidity
Nov 2015
#76
Actually it did. The program is kaput. Total output two fucking blimps.
Warren Stupidity
Oct 2015
#64
what the fuck! I could have made them one for just a cool billion or so.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2015
#56
well, we probably need it more than a new hospital for vets said absolutely no one.
librechik
Oct 2015
#60
They have more of those billion dollar ballons too, all authorised by our Pentagon big spenders.
Sunlei
Oct 2015
#62
So 1.4b price tag is perfectly justifiable for more damned useless war shit?!!!!
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2015
#86
Oh good, just promote more war shit for violent minded war mongers.
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2015
#96
Preemptive War and Broadsweep National Security are neither rational, reasonable nor ethical,
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2015
#98
It would be an opinion if it were not for the FACT war and its ugly tentacles are destroying the earth.
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2015
#100
It's going to take a radical shift in the violent minds and hardened hearts of the oligarchy.
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2015
#103