U.S. Navy looks to blimps as anti-terror tool

U.S. Navy looks to blimps as anti-terror tool

(EXCERPT), by Jennifer C. Kerr ASSOCIATED PRESS

2:16 p.m., August 8, 2003

MANASSAS, Va. – The military is looking to something old as a new
weapon in the war on terrorism: blimps.

The blimps wouldn't be like those that hover over football stadiums
and concerts. These would be equipped with cutting-edge sensors and
high-resolution cameras that could scour the landscape or oceans.

Think of it as a 200-foot-long eye in the sky.

The Office of Naval Research is working with Honolulu-based Science &
Technology International to develop the idea.

From thousands of feet up, STI's advanced o...

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