Lockheed Martin spy baloon "Aerostat" crashes into Sierra Vista, AZ neighborhood | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1307459 United States 05/17/2011 02:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why the hell are they flying a "spy" balloon in the US anyway? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 851544Lockheed Martin trains their new guys on the Aerostat in AZ before they ship off OCONUS. (I used to work that program) Lockheed sucks...glad they lost a balloon! |
johnlear User ID: 1324111 United States 05/17/2011 02:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why the hell are they flying a "spy" balloon in the US anyway? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 851544Lockheed Martin trains their new guys on the Aerostat in AZ before they ship off OCONUS. (I used to work that program) Lockheed sucks...glad they lost a balloon! Can you tell us what kind of packages and or sensors it carried? Live your life with integrity; and without envy hate or greed. Express your love to your family every day. Thats all you have to do in this life other than doing things you like to do. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1307459 United States 05/17/2011 02:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why the hell are they flying a "spy" balloon in the US anyway? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 851544Lockheed Martin trains their new guys on the Aerostat in AZ before they ship off OCONUS. (I used to work that program) Lockheed sucks...glad they lost a balloon! Can you tell us what kind of packages and or sensors it carried? Yeh, they either carried camera's or radar systems on board. Below is a link which has a little bit on info on it. [link to www.lockheedmartin.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1329407 United States 05/17/2011 02:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.globalsecurity.org] "The Tethered Aerostat Radar System is a balloon-borne radar. The primary aerostat mission is to provide radar data in support of other federal agencies involved in the nation's drug interdiction program." Sierra Vista, AZ is on the Mexican border. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1081851 United States 05/17/2011 02:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why the hell are they flying a "spy" balloon in the US anyway? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 851544Lockheed Martin trains their new guys on the Aerostat in AZ before they ship off OCONUS. (I used to work that program) Lockheed sucks...glad they lost a balloon! Can you tell us what kind of packages and or sensors it carried? Yeh, they either carried camera's or radar systems on board. Below is a link which has a little bit on info on it. [link to www.lockheedmartin.com] 300 airships and thousands of aerostats in support of military operations world-wide. What military op is going on in AZ?? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1382539 United States 05/17/2011 05:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.spyflight.co.uk] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1289041I saw this thing while driving near El Paso on holidays a year ago cool That page says my right click button has been disabled. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1302949 United States 05/17/2011 08:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | that thing needed to land down here in Yuma, AZ. that thing would have been stripped in five minutes flat. then they would have patched it up and blown it up and tied it to something offering pics taken while sitting on the thing for $20 a pop. lol |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1384385 Canada 05/17/2011 09:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why the hell are they flying a "spy" balloon in the US anyway? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 851544What? You didn't get the memo? You know...where the USA is a police state. 'un'Patriot'ic' Act. Naked Body Scanners. Sexual assault err I mean Homeland Security Enhanced Pat Downs. Treasury looting by Wall St Financial Terrorists. No longer legal to resist illegal Cop entry into your home. US Border Patrol Checkpoints no where near US borders. No fly list morphing into no travel list where if you are on it there is no appeal mechanism to get off it and you lose the right to own guns. Hmm Americana just like moms apple pie...right? It is a sad state of affairs when one has to go to Russia to get news that is not propaganda. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1322883 United States 05/17/2011 11:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why the hell are they flying a "spy" balloon in the US anyway? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 851544What? You didn't get the memo? You know...where the USA is a police state. 'un'Patriot'ic' Act. Naked Body Scanners. Sexual assault err I mean Homeland Security Enhanced Pat Downs. Treasury looting by Wall St Financial Terrorists. No longer legal to resist illegal Cop entry into your home. US Border Patrol Checkpoints no where near US borders. No fly list morphing into no travel list where if you are on it there is no appeal mechanism to get off it and you lose the right to own guns. Hmm Americana just like moms apple pie...right? It is a sad state of affairs when one has to go to Russia to get news that is not propaganda. +1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 |
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