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Popular Science: MDA’s Blimps

February 1, 2004 :: Popular Science :: News

The February edition of Popular Science magazine carries an article about the blimps the Missile Defense Agency is considering incorporating into its early warning network, graced with the clever title, “Defense Inflation.”
        Inasmuch as the blimps offer reliable stationary platform for tracking missiles, they are useful. But inasmuch as they are a substitute for more advanced space-based systems, they represent a sort of halfway house: a serious attempt to pursue missile defense compromised by irrational aversion to “weaponizing space.” Defensive measures, it must be remembered, are not the concern with weaponizing space: the ballistic missiles themselves, which leave the atmosphere during flight, are by definition “space weapons.”

 

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