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.
"[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.