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This is bound to go over really well with folks who are already fed up with govt surveillance but these drones are supposed to be only for missile defense.
More at link - http://www.businessinsider.sg/army-launching-two-surveillance-blimps-next-week-2014-12
Next week, residents in the Baltimore area will wake up to a major surprise: Two massive Army airships that will be visible from Interstate 95 for the next three years.
Tethered at the Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground 25 miles northeast of Baltimore, the airships will quickly become an uncomfortable fact of life for Americans living in the Northeast. The massive airships, each about three times the size of a Goodyear blimp, are the latest in aerial surveillance.
The blimps, built by Raytheon and known as JLENS — Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor Systems — will defend against possible cruise missile attacks and other potential threats to Washington, DC and other East Coast cities through the use of extremely high-detailed radar imaging.
The two blimps will function in concert. One of them will provide constant 360-degree scanning, covering a circular area from North Carolina to central Ohio to upstate New York even as the blimp remains stationary over suburban Baltimore. The other will focus on more specific targets. All together, JLENS will be able to track missiles, aircraft, and drones in a 340-mile radius.
Neither blimp will carry weapons. But the surveillance they provide would be relayed to air, ground, and ship-based weapons which would be used to intercept an incoming cruise missile.
More at link - http://www.businessinsider.sg/army-launching-two-surveillance-blimps-next-week-2014-12