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"As of press time the aerostats are intended to stay in the air 24/7, and to be taken down only for a monthly maintenance cycle and during extreme weather event
by flurpitude 12y ago
"As of press time the aerostats are intended to stay in the air 24/7, and to be taken down only for a monthly maintenance cycle and during extreme weather events such as hurricanes."
To any potential attackers, read that statement carefully. There's a clue in there.
Disclaimer to NSA etc.: not advocating attacks on the US. Just spotting an apparent loophole.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoProbably they'll keep their detection areas overlapping and take down one blimp at a time...
- baddox 12y agoAnd probably aerial attacks against the United States are even less practical during a hurricane.
- olefoo 12y agoDepends on how much you trust the guidance systems on your cruise missile. That said, I can't see the advantage to any one player in taking out Washington DC unless they can shift attribution to someone else. I mean the small crazies (DPRK etc.) might want to do so but have to know that even success would be fatal to them. And the big crazies (Putin, the Ayatollahs, whoever's really running the show in China) would be too concerned about the consequences. Not saying it couldn't happen, but the odds are, any entity capable of carrying out such an attack successfully has enough to lose that they would be dissuaded from doing something that would have extremely unpredictable consequences.