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RE: Squadron Abbreviations - 12/2/2005 7:04:35 AM

Cutman

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YankeeAirRat,

Yes, your exactly right! I worked with the tethered balloons (aerostats) down in Key West and they are using them a little in Iraq. They work extremely well when there is no weather. When the wind gets more than 30 nts they bring them down. They tend to blow away alot too or get the cables crossed when going up/down. When they break they are normally break down for months. They are not relible at all. What is really funny l is when they blow away from there teathers and we have to shoot them down with fighters! It has happened 3-4 times that I have seen.

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RE: Squadron Abbreviations - 12/2/2005 7:08:40 AM

Feinder

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[quoteThey are not relible at all. What is really funny l is when they blow away from there teathers and we have to shoot them down with fighters! ][/quote]

That's too funny. I wonder if the count them as "kills" like they did in WW1...

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RE: Squadron Abbreviations - 12/2/2005 7:13:13 AM

Cutman

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Feider,

The controllers actually did. I made the Marines hang up a picture of a blimp with the x accross like the fighters pilots do. What was really cool was getting to see the gun camera video from the shootdown.

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RE: Squadron Abbreviations - 12/2/2005 7:16:40 AM

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Right now - they have designs for airships that can sortie above a target higher than almost any surface to air missle can target... also, the blimps are designed with composites to make them invisible to radar, ect... they can then drop LGB at will over a target or target for other ordenance... The ability to orbit over a target like Iraq for an unlimited time period and use high powered optics make them a great addition to Predator planes, ect...

I don't put much stock into what Pop Sci or Pop Mech says. They have also said that a 1000' long military stealth blimp was being tested in 1999 at Area 51. Where do you hide a 1000' long blimp? A 1000' long hangar would be a dead giveaway.

Regardless, the problem still remains that regardless of altitude, they would still be vulnerable to antiaircraft systems even with stealth technology incorporated. Hell, even a fighter with cannons would be a threat. These things would have to be very big to house the multiple crews, electronics, food, sleeping quarters, galleys, etc, etc. There is no way you are going to be able to hide it, stealth technology or not.

And the question that really needs to be answered is what mission can they fulfill better than what we have now? They just are not feasible in a combat zone when you have satellites, AWACS, J-STARS and a host of other platforms available. Being able to stay onstation a very long time is not necessarily a benefit.

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RE: Squadron Abbreviations - 12/2/2005 8:26:53 PM

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The French are using at least one blimp over the Channel to look for smugglers the radar dish is actually located in the gas bag. The ballons in S. Florida are using the F16 Look Down Shoot Down radar. This is to see small low flying aircraft, they have been working on this since the Cuban Mig 17 showed up in the landing pattern of Homestead Air Force Base (TAC formerly SAC) before anyone noticed it.

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