Persistent surveillance by high altitude balloons

[DoggyDaddy]

I remember it fondly. Supersonic B-58s would take off from Grissom AFB, fly up to Minnesota, then make simulated bomb runs on St. Louis. I was in 1st and 2nd grade at St. John Bosco school in Hammond, and we all looked forward to the "sonic booms" on Thursday afternoons.

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I remember hearing sonic booms when I was growing up (like grade school - in the 60's) just here on the southside of Indy. Then they just stopped I guess.

 

[Thor]

I remember hearing sonic booms when I was growing up (like grade school - in the 60's) just here on the southside of Indy. Then they just stopped I guess.

South side of Indy would be folks heading to JPG and Atterbury Range. Terre Haute, Ft Wayne, & Springfield units used to fly F-4s, they could get loud and boomy. The only one left now is Ft Wayne flying A-10s which are not so loud or boomy.

 

[Thor]

These ground motion tracking radar balloons might be a great addition to border security.

 

[nonobaddog]

I have read that in “The Good Old Cold War Days”, SAC used to make simulated bombing runs over all manner of American cities. I think that Dayton Ohio was a popular simulated target because it was thought to resemble Moscow (not the one in Idaho).

Dayton Ohio population 145,000
Moscow population 12,000,000
How similar could they be?

 

[nonobaddog]

I don't know that I'd consider El Paso "midwest", but of the two shootings, he's been the only one (so far) that's appeared to have anything close to that viewpoint. Haven't heard of a motive in the Dayton shooting yet, although one of the people he shot was his sister. Not clear if that was just blind "bad luck", or if there was more to it than that.

Don't know about the motive but the Dayton killer was a self-described - leftist, pro-satan, Elizabeth Warren supporter.

 

[ront1960]

and I thought I was paranoid.......

 

[BE Mike]

Sorry, double post!

 

[BE Mike]

I am all for it. Those black helicopters are too darned noisy!