| Subject: Re: Is new Groom hangar the home of ISIS? |
| From: "miso@sushi.com" <miso@sushi.com> |
| Date: 15/03/2009, 23:46 |
| Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.area51 |
On Mar 13, 7:42 am, obviouslydelusional
<obviouslydelusio...@gmail.com> wrote:
Interesting article about a DARPA project called ISIS ("Integrated
Sensor Is the Structure") which is a proposed unmanned surveillance
airship. It's designed to float above a theater of operations and
perform continuous radar surveillance. Seeing as how one of Groom's
major missions is radar, the ISIS timeline puts it into the design/
build phase, and there's a new damn big hangar at Groom, well, I'm
just sayin'.....
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-spyblimp13-2009m...
Here's the DARPA program overview:http://www.darpa.mil/sto/space/pdf/ISIS.pdf
The new tower would make a nice tether.
Given the range of these blimps, I think the government would need a
few of them to be useful.
There is or should be a side story to this press release.
Specifically, what is the scope of the radar holes in existing land
based surveillance. There is a well known though I don't believe
documented unmonitored airspace in Washington state used for drug
smuggling. Even the route along route 95 in Nevada has holes in the
radar.
With software like SPLAT! and the locations of the FAA/JSS radar, you
could make a map of the unmonitored airspace. It's not exactly trivial
in that you would need many maps, i.e. a map for each selected
altitude (AGL).