{"id":62520,"date":"2015-10-29T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62520"},"modified":"2015-10-29T08:55:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T12:55:07","slug":"18th-century-technology-befuddles-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62520","title":{"rendered":"18th century technology befuddles Navy<\/del> military"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I guess the Navy’s blimp broke free from it’s tether and took off from Maryland to Pennsylvania yesterday. I found an article<\/a> that said that the experiment with the big balloon was supposed to end on October 5th. So here we are three weeks later and the craft decides to go AWOL. I guess it came down in Pennsylvania according to Yahoo News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two US F-16s fighter jets were scrambled to pursue the so-called JLENS blimp as it floated northeast of Washington at an altitude of about 16,000 feet (4,875 meters).<\/p>\n

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said the huge balloon-like structure finally landed in Montour County in Pennsylvania, at around 4:00 pm (2000 GMT.) A military recovery team was en route to the area to collect the runaway aircraft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The broken tether lines took down power lines as they dragged along the ground. But, hey, it was just country folks who were inconvenienced\/endangered. The Navy says that this happens frequently in Afghanistan where they also use the 18th Century technology, they break loos in bad weather and then crash. So you’d think that they would be able to anticipate a problem a little earlier and take precautions. But, like I said, the balloon didn’t go towards any urban areas where the important people live.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note<\/b> Some of the articles I linked to said that the blimp was Navy – since I wrote the post last night, the media changed some of the stories to read Army so, yes, I made a mistake by not checking the sources again this morning. Sorry, Navy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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