A high-tech U.S. military blimp designed to detect a missile attack is pictured coming to the ground in Montour County, Pennsylvania, October 28, 2015. REUTERS/SECV8, A SEGMENT OF SERVICE ELECTRIC CABLEVISION
WNU Editor: From Eric Palmer's Blog ....
.... "A high-tech US military blimp designed to detect a missile attack has come loose from its moorings and is floating free."
And there is more ....
A recent investigation by the Baltimore Sun found the programme had been "hobbled by defective software, vulnerability to bad weather and poor reliability".
Again, describes the U.S. Defense Industry...perfectly.
Maybe I am being unfair to new technology.
Or not.
9 comments:
Maybe if the spent more time and money perfecting defense instead of offense,stuff like this wouldn't happen .
A radar blimp isn't very offensive.....but maybe Pillsbury doughboy scares you!
Did i say a blimp was offensive?
Learn to read first.. then talk ..
The systems engineers won?
A good offence is the best defence
JJ
You mean like a blimp that can detect incoming missiles?
Laughable?
It's a $2.87 Billion dollar program, that costs $54 million dollars a year to run,
That is supposed to protect Washington from cruise missiles, aircraft and boats, that failed to detect a gyrocopter that landed on the White House lawn.
For that kind of money, you could have working Schools, or fix every pothole in America 28 times over, or house all the homeless.
My father told me a story about WW2 U.S. defense contractors, the military and quality control. The person in question was a good friend of my father. He had a military deferment to work in the plant that produced canopies for U.S. bombers. A very skilled job. His friend discovered a defect in the canopies that would result in their falling apart in use and cause problems for aircraft crews (e.g. fall out of the plane in flight/combat). He was told not to report it or he would marked lousy and be sent off to war. His conscience would not allow him to stay quiet. He reported the problem, was shipped off to combat and was killed. Nothing was changed in the manufacture of the canopies.
So, if you wonder if the problems with U.S. defense equipment/contractors is new, the answer is no, unfortunately, it is not.
The company that is developing the f35 got hacked by the Chinese and the government still send money. What do that tell you?
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