SHOCK - Military spy blimps over Washington D.C.

Military prototype of new spy blimp over Washington. 

 

Military Spy Blimps Over D.C.

Military surveillance powers that spans hundreds of millions of acres from North Carolina to Niagara Falls, Canada.

What the Fuck???  -  The military is ready to station 1984 Big Brother spy blimps over Washington D.C. to "protect" us and watch our every move.  Fuck that. 

Keep in mind that every dime spent on this Orwellian nightmare project was passed by a Democrat Senate and a GOP House.  This is a Bipartisan Butt Fucking.

A pair of high-tech Army blimps is coming to the greater Washington, DC area, and soon they will be able to provide the military with surveillance powers that spans hundreds of millions of acres from North Carolina to Niagara Falls, Canada.

The airships are part of Raytheon’s Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System, or JLENS, and when all is said and done they’ll offer the United States military what the defense contractor calls “an affordable elevated, persistent over-the-horizon sensor system” that relies on “a powerful integrated radar system to detect, track and target a variety of threats.”

Raytheon has just wrapped up a six-week testing period in the state of Utah and is now sending its JLENS fleet to the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. Once there, the Army intends to get some hands-on experience that will eventually culminate in launching the pair of airships over Washington, DC reports RT News.

Big Brother Is Watching.
Raytheon’s Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated
Netted Sensor System, or JLENS.  Raytheon said the JLENS surveillance
radar can “simultaneously track hundreds of threats.”  One has to
wonder about these "hundreds" of threats Big Brother government
is worried about for a blimp placed over Washington D.C.

A Prototype Blimp Rejected by the Military. 

“JLENS uses advanced sensor and networking technologies to provide 360-degree, wide-area surveillance and precision target tracking,” the Defense Department found in an unclassified audit of the system conducted in late 2011.

But while that tracking is designed to go after enemy drones and spot other suspicious activity, it is also touted as being able to provide a good enough image of moving land targets — or essentially anything. In a press release from February, Raytheon said the JLENS surveillance radar can “simultaneously track hundreds of threats.” 

Of course, the surveillance ship is only half of the JLENS program. That aircraft, one of the two tethered blimp-like vessles, is equipped with the appropriate lenses to wage sophisticated surveillance missions. Also included in the package is a separate ship equal in size that contains fire control radar that picks up data about incoming threats and then communicates with separate missile systems that can then wage attacks, or counter-attacks.

"We're proving blimps can see more than just the 50-yard line," JLENS program director Doug Burgess told Popular Science this week. "We really feel like we're at the point now — development is complete — and the system is ready to be deployed wherever it's needed."

"When the government is conducting real-time aerial surveillance within the United States," Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center told The Huffington Post, "there are privacy issues that need to be addressed."

Volunteers line up to help man the
new military spy blimps.