Re:Drone Blimps Hovering Over D.C. to Stop Cruise Missiles
by hga on Saturday July 27, 2013 @12:05PM
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The article is quite explicit about your last point, e.g. this quote:
"[We're] getting away from the Ph.D. engineer types running the system to the 20- or 25-year-old soldier running the system."
"D.C." is also good because it has a lot of airfields, many quite busy. Immediately adjacent are Reagan National; Bolling is now helicopters only, and there are a lot of helicopters flying around (at least a lot flying around Arlington, world HQ for the US military among other things). Further out you get Dulles, BWI and Andrews. So the "blimps" will have a lot to track.
Re:Drone Blimps Hovering Over D.C. to Stop Cruise Missiles
by oijaf888 on Saturday July 27, 2013 @11:55AM
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What country are we in a declared war with?
Re:Drone Blimps Hovering Over D.C. to Stop Cruise Missiles
by ferdo on Saturday July 27, 2013 @12:28PM
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That's classified, citizen:
http://www.propublica.org/article/who-are-we-at-war-with-tha...
Re:Drone Blimps Hovering Over D.C. to Stop Cruise Missiles
by sp332 on Saturday July 27, 2013 @12:14PM
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Congress hasn't declared a war since WWII, I think. So Vietnam, Gulf Wars etc weren't "declared" but that doesn't mean we didn't go to war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_Unit...
Second, the capital (especially around the Pentagon) is always covered in missile defenses, as well as every other kind of defense they can think of. Also, not all members of the Cabinet ever meet in one place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designated_survivor and lots of other super-defensive stuff goes on all the time.
Third, it looks like this has mostly been a research project so far, and the D.C. deployment is going to be a way to show it off.