Pentagon to launch blimps to guard against cruise missiles

CBSlocal ^ | 1-24-14 | not attibuted

[MeshugeMikey]

he Pentagon has discovered a gap in the defenses of Washington, D.C., and it's about to test a solution.

But depending on your point of view, the solution is either vital for national security or a threat to American privacy.

[MeshugeMikey]

dont we have somewhat more sophisticated effective methods already in play?

[rsobin]

What’s gonna save us from the enemy blimps?

[Dallas59]

Cruise missiles? From who? Why not strengthen the Navy?

[Cvengr]

[DManA]

Does that CBS anchor have some kind of neurological disease? If he doesn’t then I want to make fun of him for talking so slow.

[TheGipperWasRight]

These blimps actually have sophisticated technology that can locate YouTube videos that inflame Muslims. It’s Barack’s and Hillary’s response to Benghazi.

[DonaldC]

So who are we afraid of now?

[Nervous Tick]

These blimps are to watch YOU, silly. :-)

You can’t believe every detail of what they say.

[Nervous Tick]

There’s always the possibility she’ll choke on that crap, and no one will want to Heimlich her.

It’s a slim thread, I admit, but I’m going with it. :-)

[doc1019]

Blimps will stop a cruise missile? Who knew? Billions spent on defenses against cruise missiles and all we had to do was launch blimps?

Who know?

[Cvengr]

They can camouflage them as Macy’s Parade balloons or the Subway Blimp.

[doc maverick]

Barry the paranoid narcissist.....does he think blimps will protect him from a military coup?

Ha ha ha haaaaaaa!

[diogenes ghost]

The actual name for the thing is an ‘Aerostat’. They were in use for several years along the southern borders, used to detect aerial drug runners. I believe they have been removed from there (WOD must be over).

[Olog-hai]

I thought this was satire.

[elcid1970]

Backyard sunbathers beware!

[Bayard]

Brits tried this back in WWII but ‘buz’ bombs aren’t modern cruise missiles.

[Secret Agent Man]

what have we learned?

all fuehrers love blimps.

[Trod Upon]

It might be that someone has demonstrated the ability to effectively counter those other methods. Could even be the case that some of the birds got hacked, so now we’re down to blimps. Or, as is probable under the current regime, they are in some way directed against the citizenry.

[MeshugeMikey]

its does have a rather surreal air..... about it..doesnt it.

My Grandfather served on a blimp......decades before there were missles

The Great Leaders really getting his Year Of Action off to a BIG Start!

[MeshugeMikey]

Blimp VS Blimp...coming soon to MAD Magazine!