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WANTED: Massive $2.7B Surveillance Blimp Adrift Over Pennsylvania
(Thanks to Jay Brandes, Janice Gelb and Dave Emery)
UPDATE: The blimp has been captured.
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Pennsylvania?
Shouldn't Chris Christie be in Colorado tonight?
Posted by: poker | October 28, 2015 at 05:24 PM
France etc., etc.
Posted by: Ken Eisenhardt | October 28, 2015 at 05:31 PM
Ok, how exactly does one spend $2.7 billion on a freakin' BLIMP? We build rocket ships for less than that.
Posted by: padraig | October 28, 2015 at 05:46 PM
@padraig - my hunch is that the cost has more to do with the cost of the payload (radar equipment). Average in the cost of scrambling a couple F-16s (scrambling costs extra), and that could drive the price up.
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Posted by: MOTW | October 28, 2015 at 06:02 PM
Must sure be a lot of $900 toilet seats on that thing.
Posted by: padraig | October 28, 2015 at 06:55 PM
Oh sure a blimp named WOlf has been captured, but that other wolf- Blitzer --is allowed to run loose on CNN?
Posted by: funny man | October 28, 2015 at 07:26 PM
Great. Kill the F22. Spend it on the newest Hindenburg class fighter. Who's smoking grass in DC and in what century?
Posted by: Loudmouth | October 28, 2015 at 08:12 PM
I bet the squirrels were involved in this.
Posted by: Couch Surfer | October 29, 2015 at 01:07 AM
"The military took no kinetic action to bring it to the ground,"
As in shooting it down?
Posted by: Cheesewiz | October 29, 2015 at 09:46 AM
It passed about 15 miles south of my house. It was dragging a 6,000 foot tether over power lines. My power was out for a while.
Posted by: Layzeeboy | October 29, 2015 at 01:20 PM
Tom Brady was ready to bring it down if it needed to be deflated.
Posted by: Gort | October 29, 2015 at 04:05 PM