Long thought of as just a convenient way to both advertise tires and provide aerial coverage of football games, blimps have become a low-tech-meets-high-tech surveillance tool in some of the world's most dangerous locations. The Royal Singapore Air Force just announced that it will send a tethered aerostat platform aloft in early 2015 to “complement the RSAF's suite of airborne and ground-based radars.”
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Tuesday, 4 November 2014
From Afghanistan to Texas, Surveillance Blimps Are on the Rise
Posted on 16:43 by viju
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