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LP2K12

(885 posts)
118. Yep...
Sun Nov 8, 2015, 06:56 PM
Nov 2015

The original article is wrong. There are only two produced by that manufacturer, but there are way more than two in the world. When I was enlisted and stationed at Fort Huachuca, AZ they had an aerostat flying. They still do apparently...


Operational Sites: Yuma and Fort Huachuca, Ariz.; Deming, N.M.; Marfa, Eagle Pass, and Rio Grande City, Texas; Cudjoe Key, Fla.; and Lajas, Puerto Rico. Sites located at Morgan City, La., and Matagorda, Texas, are in a cold-storage configuration. Contract management office and logistics hub are located in Chesapeake, Va.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethered_Aerostat_Radar_System
That fucking blimp cost 1.4b dollars. [View all] Warren Stupidity Oct 2015 OP
$1.4b or this for $20,000 DJ13 Oct 2015 #1
Is that an aerial Tiny House? Wilms Oct 2015 #2
It's from the 2009 Pixar film 'Up'... PoliticAverse Oct 2015 #5
Where did the GIF of the shaking heads come from? hedgehog Oct 2015 #25
I have no idea DJ13 Oct 2015 #52
Team Fortress 2 sakabatou Nov 2015 #84
Thank you, how did you figure that out? DJ13 Nov 2015 #88
Because of this guy's Youtube channel sakabatou Nov 2015 #89
Thata a lot of material he has up there DJ13 Nov 2015 #90
Well, they need something to do at the NSA's information dominance center. pa28 Oct 2015 #3
oh god, not my naughty text messages! grasswire Oct 2015 #7
What was a blimp like this doing over Washington? Dustlawyer Nov 2015 #94
I'm not even sure Americans are allowed to know how much money Raytheon sucks from the life blood of Monk06 Oct 2015 #4
I know a mechanical engineer that works for them. Aerows Oct 2015 #29
What A Visual! ProfessorGAC Oct 2015 #33
Never let it be said Aerows Oct 2015 #37
LOL at the comment..... llmart Oct 2015 #67
It's the spread fear industry malaise Oct 2015 #46
"You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has underahedgerow Oct 2015 #59
Maybe it came with a transporter and warp drive. JonathanRackham Oct 2015 #6
"The defense/surveillance complex seems to overspend truebluegreen Oct 2015 #9
The whole issue is offensive as well. JonathanRackham Oct 2015 #11
It went rogue! Liberal_in_LA Oct 2015 #8
PA state troopers deflated it with their guns, per the news rainbow4321 Oct 2015 #10
Wow. Here's another: America spent $11 BILLION on Halloween last year. Hortensis Oct 2015 #12
The topic is governmental priorities, not individual spending. WinkyDink Oct 2015 #14
um uh there was a point Warren Stupidity Oct 2015 #15
Train of thought wandering way over. :) It was offered for perspective Hortensis Oct 2015 #17
Do you really think the people of this country want to cut, say, Social Security to Marr Nov 2015 #105
Of course, no, and not a problem. And, yes! Definitely. Hortensis Nov 2015 #109
Yeah, and got a hell of a lot more return than we did for this wayward blimp, too. Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #57
Really? How do we know that a bunch of throwaway plastic pumpkins Hortensis Oct 2015 #58
And ironically, that sentence, said with much conviction, doesn't really mean anything. Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #65
No money for S.S.! No money for Medicare! WinkyDink Oct 2015 #13
"This world in arms is not spending money alone..." Snarkoleptic Oct 2015 #16
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If this was $1.4B to help create real jobs... Duppers Oct 2015 #19
Blimps, hammers, toilet seats.. ad infinitum. What is a billion dollars here or there? Paper Roses Oct 2015 #20
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From same article dbackjon Oct 2015 #24
it is not FreedomRain Oct 2015 #36
No we bought two worthless fucking blimps. Warren Stupidity Oct 2015 #42
That is one spin, I guess dbackjon Oct 2015 #43
You mean there are 8 of those things out there? Demeter Oct 2015 #31
Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2015 #32
That can be shot out of the sky and disabled with firearms? bulloney Nov 2015 #93
You have a firearm that shoots two miles up? jberryhill Nov 2015 #108
That thing didn't look like it was 2 miles up in the pictures. bulloney Nov 2015 #111
Well, yeah... The pictures were after it got loose jberryhill Nov 2015 #113
It ryan_cats Oct 2015 #22
So you mean to tell me that the Goodyear Blimp was actually a spy blimp? d_legendary1 Oct 2015 #23
1.4 billion for an oversize condom azmom Oct 2015 #26
Oversize? Speak for yourself. KamaAina Oct 2015 #38
Hahaha azmom Oct 2015 #41
LOL! Kath1 Nov 2015 #70
Complete waste of tax payers money. WDIM Oct 2015 #27
One blimp cost more than four F-14D Tomcats and they filled it full of lead KeepItReal Oct 2015 #28
I like how it took out powerlines, shorting them as it drifted Demeter Oct 2015 #30
A billion here, a billion there, tabasco Oct 2015 #34
Did they catch it? Gore1FL Oct 2015 #35
I know some folks Aerows Oct 2015 #39
Lawnchair Larry built one for, like, $19.95 Brother Buzz Oct 2015 #40
I don't remember that story, what year did that stunt take place? B Calm Oct 2015 #48
1982 - I remember it well for some odd reason despite thinking it happened in the seventies Brother Buzz Oct 2015 #49
Only in America would we spend $1.4 bil on 1930s technology. louis-t Oct 2015 #44
Does it look like, perchance? hifiguy Oct 2015 #45
+1 n/t lumberjack_jeff Oct 2015 #47
And does it sound like this... Dont call me Shirley Nov 2015 #85
"...there are only two of these blimps in..." < One.One of these blimps in the world... jtuck004 Oct 2015 #50
LOL. JimDandy Nov 2015 #102
Its gonna take a lot of patches to put blimpy together again. Historic NY Oct 2015 #51
All the king's horses and all the king's men passiveporcupine Oct 2015 #54
no, the blimp didn't cost close to that ArcticFox Oct 2015 #53
2.8 billion total spent. Output: two blimps. Warren Stupidity Oct 2015 #63
This is the wrong way to evaluate an R&D program... PosterChild Nov 2015 #75
Um uh, you're so right. When we get into the mass production of fucking blimps Warren Stupidity Nov 2015 #76
The pupose of the program is to protect against . .... PosterChild Nov 2015 #78
It's not the blimp, it's the electronics jberryhill Nov 2015 #106
The blimp did not cost $1.4 billion Recursion Oct 2015 #55
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
While it is a large baloon and therefore has some expense 1939 Oct 2015 #61
They have more of those billion dollar ballons too, all authorised by our Pentagon big spenders. Sunlei Oct 2015 #62
1.4b could have built the Raiders a nice new stadium in Downtown Oakland itsrobert Oct 2015 #66
Remember when the news broke about that Surveillance Blimp and we Laughed KoKo Oct 2015 #68
Still waiting to hear how & by whom the blimp was shot down. Divernan Nov 2015 #69
$1.4 billion for a damn blimp. Kath1 Nov 2015 #71
I'm guessing, but I don't think... PosterChild Nov 2015 #82
So 1.4b price tag is perfectly justifiable for more damned useless war shit?!!!! Dont call me Shirley Nov 2015 #86
Shirley, you jest.... PosterChild Nov 2015 #87
Oh good, just promote more war shit for violent minded war mongers. Dont call me Shirley Nov 2015 #96
National security and defense are , .., PosterChild Nov 2015 #97
Preemptive War and Broadsweep National Security are neither rational, reasonable nor ethical, Dont call me Shirley Nov 2015 #98
Opinions are like... PosterChild Nov 2015 #99
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
And that fact is why national security and defense are so important .... PosterChild Nov 2015 #101
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
Umm, OK... PosterChild Nov 2015 #104
You could call the Kochs, they may have some frightening info. Dont call me Shirley Nov 2015 #110
You can call them.... PosterChild Nov 2015 #112
So sad, such resistance to Peace and Love. Dont call me Shirley Nov 2015 #114
Thats a laugh . ... it's resistance to... PosterChild Nov 2015 #115
Oh my side, you're a hoot! Dont call me Shirley Nov 2015 #116
You're quite the comedian yourself.... PosterChild Nov 2015 #117
Thank you, PosterChild and will do... Dont call me Shirley Nov 2015 #121
Be sure to let ne know when . ... PosterChild Nov 2015 #122
pathetically, it was Phil1934 Nov 2015 #72
That's what's called , .. PosterChild Nov 2015 #81
beyond sick, what the military gets away with Fast Walker 52 Nov 2015 #73
IT'S NOT A BALLOON--IT'S AN AIRSHIP! AN AIRSHIP!!! Orrex Nov 2015 #74
The Mothership! The Mothership! klook Nov 2015 #95
Ever blow up a condom? jberryhill Nov 2015 #120
Wow, balloons float away if not secured PowerToThePeople Nov 2015 #77
My guess is that the .... PosterChild Nov 2015 #80
The pupose of the program is to protect against . .... PosterChild Nov 2015 #79
One way to justify $$$ for the shadow government... freebrew Nov 2015 #83
A nuclear aircraft carrier costs $4b. JohnnyRingo Nov 2015 #91
if only 2 exist in the world.... smiley Nov 2015 #92
DC and the region around it. jberryhill Nov 2015 #107
Yep... LP2K12 Nov 2015 #118
There are normally two flying at Aberdeen jberryhill Nov 2015 #119
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