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Surveillance Blimp Will Help Police Border

Source: Valley Morning Star By Dan Santella – The Monitor It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … no, it’s a Border Patrol blimp. Mobile, unmanned, aerial security surveillance has arrived in the Rio Grande Valley.

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Raytheon Tests System Using Blimps, to Enhance Radar for F-15 Fighter Pilots Using Air-to-Air Missiles

Source: International Business Times By David Kashi Floating 10,000 feet (3.048 m) in the air, a 240-foot (73 m) blimp can detect, track and target a variety of threats in a system developed by Raytheon Co., the Massachusetts-based defense and … Continue reading

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$22 million blimp to fill gap in surveillance of North Korea

Source: Stars and Stripes – stripes.com By Jon Rabiroff and Yoo Kyong Chang A blimp will soon be hovering over several islands just south of the disputed maritime border between the two Koreas, filling a surveillance gap.

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Photos from the 2013 MAKS Airshow – LTA Aircraft

The 11th International Air and Space Salon, MAKS-2013, was held at the airport in  Zhukovsky, a city about 25 miles SE of Moscow, from August 27 to September 1 of this year. The event is mainly used to showcase Russian … Continue reading

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