The problem with the American military today is that it doesn’t have a giant, robotic airship, two-and-a-half times the size of the Goodyear blimp, that can watch over an entire city at once. Thankfully, the Pentagon’s way-out research arm, Darpa, is trying to fix that.
The program is called ISIS, short for “Integrated Sensor Is Structure.” And the idea is to park an unmanned airship over a hot zone for a year, at nearly 65,000 feet in the sky. Up there, ISIS can spot enemy soldiers up to 180 miles away, target tanks and trucks, and watch out for incoming cruise missiles 350 miles in the distance — a “detailed, real-time picture of all movement on or above the battlefield,” one Darpa program manager says. During down times, ISIS might even serve as a cell tower in the sky, relaying communications to U.S. troops.
But to pull it all off, almost the entire hull of the ISIS ship would have to be turned into a phased-array radar antenna. And that is no mean task.
To get the airship to fly, the antenna would have to weigh about 2 kilograms/meter — as opposed to 20 kg/m today. And new tricks in power storage will be needed, too — batteries that can store a kilowatt-hour’s worth of juice in half a kilogram, instead of the 2 kg currently required.
Darpa, along with the Air Force Research Lab, just handed Lockheed Martin the latest in a $42.5 million series of contracts to develop components the uber-blimp. If all goes well — and that’s a big, fat if — the ISIS could fly by 2011.
All-Seeing Blimp on the Rise
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There is a company that already working on the general idea of using unmanned airships. Sanswire Network, LLC is planning on using theirs for communications hubs to replace wire infrastructure. I say its a good idea and wish someone started working on it sooner.
Is this the HAA renamed?
And 2011? I thought the HAA was gonna take to the skies in a couple years. geez…
I’m still bummed that they canned WALRUS.
ho well, hopefully everything goes smoothly for this project so blimps can become more common in todays society.
will this help the troops in iraq?
Haninah – The HAA isn’t some fairy tale project thats just being toyed with. Its being built. DARPA has given Lockheed nearly 150 million to do so.
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/2006/01/lockheed-wins-1492m-contract-for-high-altitude-airship-updated/index.php
I’m still bummed we wasted 700 billion on Iraq and I still have to pay $3.12 / gallon for gas!
They built the same thing for the soldiers the everlasting “war” in the book “1987″..
At 65,000ft, the blimp would be well above any current or proposed anti-aircraft artillery, as well as all but one or two types of Surface to Air Missiles. The greatest threat would be from hostile aircraft and even then, most can’t break the 40,000ft ceiling without special equipment. I don’t think the plans are to station it above an enemy with those kinds of capabilities, but it might do very well in low-intensity conflicts, such as the on-going operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Typical to call Crimes Against Humanity being perputrated in Iraq and Afghanistan by the US, low intensity conflicts. Never mind the US has been unsuccesful for 7-8 years there. Another 911 can't come soon enough or often enough
Is this the same blimp that started 2 illegal wars, cages protestors, forces book outlets like Amazon to stop stocking books like “America Deceived” by E.A. Blayre III and spies on all citizens? No that’s not a blimp, it’s the people buying the blimp. I’m sure they won’t use it in any nefarious way.
Last lnik (before Google Books gets a visit from the blimp):
yea, just like the lapd with their drone
remote spyplane, dont worry folks we will
not abuse it. (yea right!!!!!!!) as they
use the excuse “besides where ever you go
you go you are under camera surveillance
any way!!!!!wake up america, snap out of
being like a bunch mindless sheep!!!!gt
In response to Tim’s comments on the ease of shooting down the proposed airship. It would take an advanced AAA system to reach the altitude of 65,000 feet. Countries such as the USA, Russia, China, Israel etc.. have capable systems but many countries do not.
I’m bummed we wasted 40,000+ Iraqi civilians (some quotes go as high as 100,000), period!
For this to seem like its even slightly a good idea is nuts. You know it’ll be stationed over our own cities. No AA guns needed to take em down in our own country, or should i say the American Union http://www.spp.gov . THEIR TAKING OUR RIGHTS AND TURNING US INTO SLAVES!
“It would take an advanced AAA system to reach the altitude of 65,000 feet.”
How about another balloon? With a payload that goes BOOM!
I hate to be the optimist here, but the way things have been proceeding, who of you actually believe we
Has anyone bothered to study why wherever white people are, there is death and destruction?
quote by Truthseeker
“Has anyone bothered to study why wherever white people are, there is death and destruction?”
- Because white people, like all people have the ability and will to create and destroy. The Biblical “knowledge of good and evil” was symbolic of the ability for humans to alternate between the id and the Superego, using the ego. Its a program of thinking we are born into irrespective of skin colour. White people simply have had the benefit of living in climates that give rise to more time between meals/hunting/farming to be able to develope beyond biological needs and into the realm of the mind (duality).
Conflict isn’t a creation of pale skin.
Can I drive? I’ve only had one DUI ;-p
please find a way to open and live from the heart, then there will be no need for fear. fear is a vibration, we are a vibration of light if we only think of love and joy then nothing physical can have any affect against us, use the Mer-ka-ba its in everybody we are light vibration, we are love joy bliss as is the earth breath the energy in feel the love from the earth it won’t ever harm us.
negative thoughts are just thoughts turn those thoughts into thoughts of love joy and happiness, that inturn destroys all negative vibrations thus making the people in grey suits think….
love to you all
Have you wondered why after over 5 years the president hasn’t taken any initiative to secure our borders after 9/11? Our government is being hijacked by private interests through the executive branch for the creation of a new Pan American Union. This new union is a trilateral agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico for ‘Security and Prosperity Partnership.
Read the rest of the artical at http://www.blackhillsportal.com/npps/story.cfm?ID=1760 or if your lazy watch the video clip from Lou Dobbs thats on there.
“Has anyone bothered to study why wherever white people are, there is death and destruction?”
I’ve studied it! The answer I found was amazing! It seems that the reason that there is death and destruction wherever white people are is the EXACT SAME REASON that there is death and destruction wherever black people are, brown people, and EVERY OTHER RACE ON THE PLANET!
I just want to know what the meaning of the word ‘Is’…’Is’. -Bill Clinton
I take offense to Denfense Tech including Law Enforcement.
Cops serve no one except for their political handlers and commit crimes against humanity daily.
I believe that in order to be a cop you must have served honorably in the military, only then can you appreciate the freedoms we all enjoy in America.
Too many times I have encountered these punk kids who think they’re the law and they know nothing about serving your fellow American in a honorable manner.
America is turning into a POLICE STATE, wake up and don’t glorify these freedom-trampling closet nazis.
Look, I was young once. You feel like you have to protest everything. Take a stance, stop letting the Liberal Media brainwash you into hating our Government. And yes, the 60′s are over. Time to grow up and be original.
No, this big ballon is not going to park above your house and monitor the activities you’re so paranoid about.
Okay listen if they want to monitor people with this they can, they are capable to do so after this balloon goes up. You honestly think if they wanted to monitor public you think they would tell the public?
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