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this thread's awesome, not sure how it made it 4 pages though.
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john law
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stop using facts to embarrass Desert Eagle and 7960
remember, balloons work 100% of the time, cost pennies to operate, and WILL STOP illegals...according to those two dumbfucks
remember, balloons work 100% of the time, cost pennies to operate, and WILL STOP illegals...according to those two dumbfucks
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BoomBoomBoy
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She could buy 4 helicopters, staff them, and maintain them, and still be light years ahead.
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Desert Eagle
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I bet you if you decriminalized the shooting of anyone coming over this line, not only would it cost Arizona nothing to pass the law, but you'd have plenty of rednecks willing to supply their own guns and ammo (hell, I bet you could CHARGE a $100 per kill license fee) to get the chance to "hunt humans".
If the illegals don't like it, they can stay on their fucking side of the line.
I really am sick of all the excuses people make for illegals.
If the illegals don't like it, they can stay on their fucking side of the line.
I really am sick of all the excuses people make for illegals.
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Mr3GTP
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Fuck drones. Claymores, mortars, and night-vision scopes will do the job quite nicely. [/DE]
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CBFryman
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She wants her Obama bucks, though.
Seems to be on that intellectual level.
Seems to be on that intellectual level.
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7960
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several states? SEVERAL STATES!!
so maybe that means illegals don't vote in those states, but your contention was that they can't vote. what about the states where ID is not required?
so maybe that means illegals don't vote in those states, but your contention was that they can't vote. what about the states where ID is not required?
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Desert Eagle
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... and what do you do for a living that makes you an expert?
After a 60-year hiatus, the U.S. Army is back in the balloon business.
So are the Marines.
Last used in World War II, the balloon has reappeared as a cost-effective surveillance platform in Iraq and the Global War on Terror, military officials say.
The Army recently announced the expansion of an ongoing, limited balloon program with the purchase of sixteen unmanned, helium-filled surveillance balloons. The $12 million program will provide hard-pressed soldiers fighting in Iraq with more spies in the sky against enemy fighters. The 17-meter-long "tactical aerostats" will complement three smaller balloons operating in northern Iraq for more than a year. Meanwhile, the Marine Corps is also buying two tethered "aerostats" – smaller cousins of the giant surveillance balloons that the U.S. government has deployed for years along America's borders.
The Marines are getting the unmanned blimps to improve non-line-of-sight communications among ground units and between ground units and aircraft, according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
The Marines' new balloon, called the Marine Airborne Re-Transmission Systems (MARTS), was developed by DARPA to fill a service need for non-line-of-sight communications. The first blimp is currently being deployed to Iraq but its exact location and delivery date are classified. In the meantime the Marine Corps is buying a second blimp, DARPA officials said. Each blimp, including the ground station, costs $3.5 million, officials said.
Currently the Army's three deployed 15-meter aerostats are operated by the 134th Signal Company, part of the 256th Brigade Combat Team, Louisiana Army National Guard, currently serving near Mosul in northern Iraq . Each balloon is crewed by three or four soldiers who actually launch and fly the vehicle. The aerostats are tethered to a launching platform and deployed to an altitude of almost 1,000 feet by a winch-operated reinforced fiber-optic cable that allows secure communications between the surveillance devices and the ground crew.
A separate team operates its surveillance systems and coordinates the distribution of intelligence data. A primary use of the system is to provide time-sensitive data to quick reaction forces on alert to strike the insurgents as soon as they are discovered, officials say.
According to a promotional video provided by TCOM, L.P. , the balloon's manufacturer, the new aerostats have increased the surveillance capabilities of area commanders out to 30 kilometers or more using infrared, thermal and optical surveillance devices.
"These systems are saving soldiers' lives," said Maj. Reid Vander Schaaf, a spokesman for the Army aerostat program office in Elizabeth City, N.C.
The first aerostats arrived in the Mosul area in June 2004, officials said. One is tethered at Camp Victory , a second at Mosul , and a third, operated by civilians, is at nearby Camp Slayer .
Although the Army's aerostats are only about two-thirds the size of a manned World War I surveillance balloon, and only have a load-bearing capacity of about 200 pounds this is sufficient to lift the high-tech spyware systems onboard, said TCOM, L.P. spokesman Stephan Silvoy at the company's Columbia, Md., headquarters.
The 17-meter balloons are the smallest members of a much larger system called the Joint Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS). JLENS was originally conceived to watch for low-flying cruise missiles and attack aircraft flying nape-of-the-earth profiles. Currently the U.S. and several friendly Middle Eastern countries have deployed TCOM's giant 71-meter aerostat , which operates at 15,000 feet and higher, Silvoy said.
In Iraq , the Army is employing mobilized National Guard soldiers to operate the balloons. One is Staff Sgt. Sarah Partlow, a 31L (wire and cable installer) from East Grand Forks , Minn. A JLENS team chief at Camp Victory , Iraq , Partlow said the balloons can be deployed in a few hours by only a handful of personnel.
"The balloons are tethered to truck transports, can be operated by as few as three or four soldiers or civilians and they can be inflated and launched within four hours," she recently told a reporter for Scimitar , the official newspaper of the Multi-National Force/Iraq command .
The balloons can remain in the air for as long as a week and are not immediately susceptible to small arms fire, Silvoy said. "They are very low pressure," he explained. "Two inches of pressure so it takes a long time for all the helium to escape – leak – out of the aerostat."
The Army has been in the balloon business several times in its 230-year history. Both the Union and Confederate armies used balloons for observation during the Civil War, marking the first time that balloons were used in the United States for reconnaissance. Thaddeus Lowe gained fame as the Union 's first "aeronaut." In time, the Union launched several more balloons that were used effectively.
The Confederate Army also formed a version of the Union 's balloon corps. In the spring of 1862, Capt. John Randolph Bryan supervised the building and deployment of the Confederate's only observation balloon. This consisted of a cotton envelope coated with varnish. Unlike the hydrogen-filled Union balloons, it was a "Montgolfi
After a 60-year hiatus, the U.S. Army is back in the balloon business.
So are the Marines.
Last used in World War II, the balloon has reappeared as a cost-effective surveillance platform in Iraq and the Global War on Terror, military officials say.
The Army recently announced the expansion of an ongoing, limited balloon program with the purchase of sixteen unmanned, helium-filled surveillance balloons. The $12 million program will provide hard-pressed soldiers fighting in Iraq with more spies in the sky against enemy fighters. The 17-meter-long "tactical aerostats" will complement three smaller balloons operating in northern Iraq for more than a year. Meanwhile, the Marine Corps is also buying two tethered "aerostats" – smaller cousins of the giant surveillance balloons that the U.S. government has deployed for years along America's borders.
The Marines are getting the unmanned blimps to improve non-line-of-sight communications among ground units and between ground units and aircraft, according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
The Marines' new balloon, called the Marine Airborne Re-Transmission Systems (MARTS), was developed by DARPA to fill a service need for non-line-of-sight communications. The first blimp is currently being deployed to Iraq but its exact location and delivery date are classified. In the meantime the Marine Corps is buying a second blimp, DARPA officials said. Each blimp, including the ground station, costs $3.5 million, officials said.
Currently the Army's three deployed 15-meter aerostats are operated by the 134th Signal Company, part of the 256th Brigade Combat Team, Louisiana Army National Guard, currently serving near Mosul in northern Iraq . Each balloon is crewed by three or four soldiers who actually launch and fly the vehicle. The aerostats are tethered to a launching platform and deployed to an altitude of almost 1,000 feet by a winch-operated reinforced fiber-optic cable that allows secure communications between the surveillance devices and the ground crew.
A separate team operates its surveillance systems and coordinates the distribution of intelligence data. A primary use of the system is to provide time-sensitive data to quick reaction forces on alert to strike the insurgents as soon as they are discovered, officials say.
According to a promotional video provided by TCOM, L.P. , the balloon's manufacturer, the new aerostats have increased the surveillance capabilities of area commanders out to 30 kilometers or more using infrared, thermal and optical surveillance devices.
"These systems are saving soldiers' lives," said Maj. Reid Vander Schaaf, a spokesman for the Army aerostat program office in Elizabeth City, N.C.
The first aerostats arrived in the Mosul area in June 2004, officials said. One is tethered at Camp Victory , a second at Mosul , and a third, operated by civilians, is at nearby Camp Slayer .
Although the Army's aerostats are only about two-thirds the size of a manned World War I surveillance balloon, and only have a load-bearing capacity of about 200 pounds this is sufficient to lift the high-tech spyware systems onboard, said TCOM, L.P. spokesman Stephan Silvoy at the company's Columbia, Md., headquarters.
The 17-meter balloons are the smallest members of a much larger system called the Joint Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS). JLENS was originally conceived to watch for low-flying cruise missiles and attack aircraft flying nape-of-the-earth profiles. Currently the U.S. and several friendly Middle Eastern countries have deployed TCOM's giant 71-meter aerostat , which operates at 15,000 feet and higher, Silvoy said.
In Iraq , the Army is employing mobilized National Guard soldiers to operate the balloons. One is Staff Sgt. Sarah Partlow, a 31L (wire and cable installer) from East Grand Forks , Minn. A JLENS team chief at Camp Victory , Iraq , Partlow said the balloons can be deployed in a few hours by only a handful of personnel.
"The balloons are tethered to truck transports, can be operated by as few as three or four soldiers or civilians and they can be inflated and launched within four hours," she recently told a reporter for Scimitar , the official newspaper of the Multi-National Force/Iraq command .
The balloons can remain in the air for as long as a week and are not immediately susceptible to small arms fire, Silvoy said. "They are very low pressure," he explained. "Two inches of pressure so it takes a long time for all the helium to escape – leak – out of the aerostat."
The Army has been in the balloon business several times in its 230-year history. Both the Union and Confederate armies used balloons for observation during the Civil War, marking the first time that balloons were used in the United States for reconnaissance. Thaddeus Lowe gained fame as the Union 's first "aeronaut." In time, the Union launched several more balloons that were used effectively.
The Confederate Army also formed a version of the Union 's balloon corps. In the spring of 1862, Capt. John Randolph Bryan supervised the building and deployment of the Confederate's only observation balloon. This consisted of a cotton envelope coated with varnish. Unlike the hydrogen-filled Union balloons, it was a "Montgolfi
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mr jenzie
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my namesake is RIGHT!!!!!
except don't bother with the drone part .....
"quiero un poco de caramelo?"
"FFFFWWWWSSSSHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"
"M#U#V#V#A#F#U#K#K#A"
except don't bother with the drone part .....
"quiero un poco de caramelo?"
"FFFFWWWWSSSSHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"
"M#U#V#V#A#F#U#K#K#A"
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john law
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OMNI-MAN
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how much barbed wire and guard dogs can you buy for the price of a predator drone and operator
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7960
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did you just quote yourself?
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Alexqzilla
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Demilitarized zone anyone?
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V!
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Barbed wire and dogs seemed to work well in Command & Conquer.
So long as the Mexican's aren't armed with either flamethrowers or grenades, we should be able to handle them.
IIRC, the wire and dogs were one of the cheapest things to make.
So long as the Mexican's aren't armed with either flamethrowers or grenades, we should be able to handle them.
IIRC, the wire and dogs were one of the cheapest things to make.
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buttslut
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Of course, Obama wants as many illegal immigrants here as possible. Who else is going to vote for him in 2012?
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spagina
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I would hardly consider those two to be dumbfucks, your abrasiveness is a little off putting.
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7960
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your lack of reading is impressive.
"They are very low pressure," he explained. "Two inches of pressure so it takes a long time for all the helium to escape
"They are very low pressure," he explained. "Two inches of pressure so it takes a long time for all the helium to escape
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john law
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Oh you mean liberal states like California and Massachusetts?
An ID should be required to vote. I'm sorry those states are pro criminals.
An ID should be required to vote. I'm sorry those states are pro criminals.
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john law
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nah, just fly up some balloons. according to 7960, it will stop anyone and everyone for pennies.
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7960
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my story on the first page, they planned to cover the entire state of north dakota with 3 balloons
why spend $5M when balloons cost pennies on the dollar?
and for the guy who said they can't fly during bad weather,
why spend $5M when balloons cost pennies on the dollar?
and for the guy who said they can't fly during bad weather,