Remember when a large group of imbeciles descended on Texas because of a rumor that Obama was going to declare Marshall law?
I wonder what they think of placing camera's and radar throughout the Midwest with DVR capability now that it is being done by a Republican admin
to be fair this program pre-dates Trump, I was against it under Obama too.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest
I wonder what they think of placing camera's and radar throughout the Midwest with DVR capability now that it is being done by a Republican admin
to be fair this program pre-dates Trump, I was against it under Obama too.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest
The US military is conducting wide-area surveillance tests across six midwest states using experimental high-altitude balloons, documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reveal.Up to 25 unmanned solar-powered balloons are being launched from rural South Dakota and drifting 250 miles through an area spanning portions of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Missouri, before concluding in central Illinois.
Travelling in the stratosphere at altitudes of up to 65,000ft, the balloons are intended to “provide a persistent surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats”, according to a filing made on behalf of the Sierra Nevada Corporation, an aerospace and defence company.
The balloons are carrying hi-tech radars designed to simultaneously track many individual vehicles day or night, through any kind of weather. The tests, which have not previously been reported, received an FCC license to operate from mid-July until September, following similar flights licensed last year.
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