It seems like not that long ago, the DOD was looking to blimps as a weapon
in the war on drugs. Whatever happened to that idea? ISTR something about
a blimp tethered at Ft. Huachuca, AZ designed to peer over the Mexican
border and....???... see drugs??? ...or something.

R

Tiger wrote in message
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Well It would keep Lakehurst in the lighter than air biz......

Otis Willie wrote:

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.