Will blimps ever be viable to the military again?

butt joke haha

>>30739898
Yes, no, maybe.

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>>30739898
that literally looked like a girl's ass from the catalog

Like it looks exactly like this pic of mikasa

They're being used in Afghanistan for surveillance stuff, and some police departments want to use them here. A futuristic police state dystopia isn't complete without blimps.

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>>30739898
>>30739927
More

>>30739898
Only after WW3.

Only at very high altitude and space son. Space.

I work alongside a company that puts cams on balloons for surveillance. I wont be any more specific about what i do, but the intent is to be able to surveill large areas.

>>30739898
i want to fuck that blimp

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>>30739898
>>30739927
>>30739953

>>30739898
THICK

>>30739973
>>30739992
this and this. theres always going to be use for blimps OP.

>>30739973
A blimp in space would burst.

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>>30739992
I threw a camera out of a plane

>>30740042
Not if there is nothing in it but space

>>30740050
Well, not quite the same kek.


the point is to be able to do live footage for hours on end, or for blimps even longer.

If they store data they can watch events leading up to the crime/habbening, and nab associates or watch drug dens, etc

>>30740101
Lol yeah I figured it was just some super high tech DVR.Pre crime in a sense. You could see something building up and act accordingly.

>>30740101
They must have seen me do alot of shit lol oops.

>>30739992
Sooo... IMSI catchers.

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>>30739898
Depends on what you mean by "blimp".

>>30739927
>>30739953

Zoe am bestest.

>>30739898
That blimp can get it.

>>30740140
Honestly its mostly after the fact. You cant watch a whole city of a million and have comprehension of it with a hundred personnel to analyze.


Heres a plausible "maybe i did this maybe i didnt" scenario:

>Guy gets shot
>911 whats your emergency
>body at corner of X and Y, estimated ToD 1300. Vic was low time dealer
>watch footage
>theres the shooter
>follow him back and forward in time
>notice where he goes and stops
>cross reference traffic cams
>oh look that place was a drug den
>watch those cars that come and go, came and went
>oh someone stopped at gas station? Great
>get gas station cam view, credit card info from purchase gives name/address
>gather everyone up, slap shooter for murder and crime boss for conspiracy

Thats kinda the wet dream scenario

>>30739898
Looks like Sasha Braus desu

>>30740327
Yeah, there is surveillance at street level everywhere really. Phones for example only allow so much anonymity, like anything, even money has unique numbers that are traceable that most people don't even think about.

>>30739898
HNNNNG... a blimp?

>>30740371
Traffic cams suck donkey dick. They frequently are on "patrol", so they just spin around and look frequently at the wrong thing, and the ball cam resolution is shockingly bad. Like 2004 flip phone bad in most cases.

You would rage like me if you saw a car drive through several in a row only to catch the rear tire, or be unable to read a license plate at 60 ft head on

>>30739928
And i'll whisper... "no"

>>30739898
They're useful for long range radar surveillance. Hoist aerostat with radar on the coast, boom, relativly cheap long range radar.

>>30740042
Space only has a 0 atm pressure, compared to the earth's ~1 atm.

In other words, it's an insignificant difference.

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>>30739898
>it's that blimp picture again

>>30739898
T E S T

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UUUUUUUUUUUGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>30740534
>Not knowing that the difference between 0 and 1 is infinite

>>30739898

After we pissed most of the world's supply of helium away on party balloons, I doubt there'll ever be mass adoption of them.

>>30740641
I bet you think oil production will cease in the next 20 years, dont you?
>Shale-oil
>algae-producted oil
>etc etc
There is a reason why gas doesn't smell sickly sweet anymore, and its because its not the same fuckin gas. ie, its not produced from 55gal drums of crude now.

>>30740662
He has a point.

Its not like we are bioengineering helium-farting algae right now.


that said, im willing to bet that if it gets in demand we will see it continue to be gathered and used, even if price goes up

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>>30739898

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>>30740042
Google did it just fine

To make low altitude blimps useful you'd have to scale back technology to 1900 and get rid of fast aerial recon and bombing, modern ballistics, and satellites. A couple of jawas with rpg's would paralyze a whole fleet of them and they're sitting ducks for anti-air artillery and bullets. The only advantage they have is long-term airborne time with minimal fuel costs, which is useful in the middle of the ocean I guess

>>30740860
This guy.

>>30739898
Stop mooning me...

>>30740042
you just need to material of the balloon to be stronger they the force of the gas expanding at 0 atmospheres
which really becomes rather pointless since the gas balloon serves no purpose in space

>>30740860
>anti-air artillery and bullets
pretty sure those things don't have 100km range

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>>30740534
>>30740042
>this is what retards actually think
there's a fucking inflatable module on the ISS right now you fags.

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>>30739953
>>30739927

Mikasa is not for sexual. Please delete this

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>>30739898

>Will blimps ever be viable to the military again?

Apparently they were deployed in Iraq.

>>30740935
>low altitude

Space balloons don't need to be shot down anyway, they're useless for the military beyond suspending surveillance equipment

>>30741029
The few, the proud, the MRE vacuums

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>>30740952
i agree, she if for the washing of clothes on, yes

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>>30739898

>>30741045
>beyond suspending surveillance equipment
So they are very useful?

US military has spent billions on tethered aerostats that contain radar. the program has been a failure.

>>30739898
Sort of. The shipping industry is currently investigating using massive blimps for transport since they would be faster than trucks and can drop down in areas. The DoD is definitely sponsoring some of that. The real power of these blimps is that they are dependable, can ship a ton of cargo and would be easy as hell to automate

Fucking popular mechanics. No, we won't see blimps used for anything ever. Yes its a technology that never reached its nadir, and thats sad, but you gotta get over it.

They're useful for aerosats, like how the IDF uses them, and thats it.

>>30741236
>the program has been a failure.
not so fast.... the program has been great for appropriating money for card-corporations and filtering it directly into trust bank accounts accessible by the people who pushed it through.

How else do you think they afford all those high$ toys and cars for their own personal use?

>>30742651
>No, we won't see blimps used for anything ever.

Real world disagrees with you.

>>30741064
He ain't fat.
He's just constipated because he has eaten nothing but MREs and pouge-bait for 4 months and hasn't taken a shit once for the whole deployment.

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THICC

>>30739912
i don't know

>>30741217
>satellites don't exist in my version of the planet

>>30739898

That blimp looks like a butt

I can walk outside of my barracks and look at a blimp flying over the FOB right now you dolt

>>30739898
THICC

>>30745572

DAT BLIMP IS BOUT TO GET IT SENPAI

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>>30739898
>>30739953

This is a surprisingly good fit. Over 20 seconds in MSPaint.

>>30745660

If you include shots of the people on the ground you could tick off macro on the fetish's you've triggered.

>>30745722

Are sexualized blimps catching on yet? I've seen planes and tanks and that was enough for me

>>30745749

Thank bud, now THATS going to be a thing, too

>>30745749

What about ships?

You know what?

I've been thinking about living out of an RV or remodeling a bus or van into one, but now I think I've been thinking too small.

Time to live in a fucking blimp house.

>>30745789
>kancolle

>>30739898
Where there's a will (and billions of easily gained taxpayer dollars) there's a way.

>>30745820

Those are just girls with turrets and funnels nailed to them, I'm talking real antro-ships.

>>30745873
>nailed
>"UUAAAAAAGGGHHH IT HURRRRRTSS""
>"but you look so prettyyyy"

>>30740622
>falling for memes

>>30740860
The RPG-29 has an initial velocity of 280 m/s. Which means, if fired straight upwards, it will keep going up for 28.5 seconds, at an average speed of 140 m/s, for a maximum altitude of just under 4,000 meters. Airships built for high-altitude flight can definitely exceed that, and the flight time means leading the target is going to be difficult. If an airship is 200 meters long and moving at a speed of 20 meters per second, if you aim at the front when firing, the RPG shot will be 370 meters behind the airship's tail when it gets there. And since firing at an angle reduces the altitude reached, your only practical option would be to stand over 500 meters in front of the airship when firing. So RPGs really aren't an effective anti-air weapon, even against large slow targets like airships.

>>30745660
yeah that's going in a threadcap

>>30745722
>include shots of the people on the ground

Oh, god.

Please bless us with this, shoplords.

>>30745660
slow clap

>>30745660
I have, the weirdest boner right now.

>>30743410
Could you repeat the question?

>it's like the Macy's inflatables
>Except it's 1,000 feet tall, anatomically correct, and scantily clad

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>>30745660

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>>30739898

>>30742651
>>30739898

Nigger every fob in Iraq and trashcanistan has multiple observation blimps

>>30740860
Make air-based aircraft carriers real

>>30745660
If no one's capped this yet I want this comment in

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>>30739898

>>30739898
Honestly thought that was a still from a new "Mia Malkova: Silver Yoga Pants" edition

That blimp has a nice ass

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>>30740952
>>30741065
MIKASA IS FOR SEXUAL

>>30748592
Add me in the cap to please

>>30740220
What's this from? My degenerate fetishes must know

>>30740534
Learn about buoyancy. Balloons float because they weigh less than the air that they displace. Vacuum weighs zero, so no buoyancy.

>>30740556
>it's that blimp picture again

We're going to keep posting it until the mods get used to it. And then switch to posting ass.

>>30741029
Walrus Team Six

>>30747172
Science, fuck yeah!

On a side note - wouldn't blimps be somewhat immune to manpads?
All manpads are heat-seakers, blimps could use electric motors and wouldn't produce much heat...

>>30739898
Artic war blimps.

>>30752340
>All manpads are heat-seakers
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowpipe_(missile)
>The operator has to steer the missile all the way to its target manually
kys faggot

>>30745660
>gotta sleep
>open my browser to check up on /k/ before going to sleep
>see this
jeez, guess gotta fap again

>>30745660

I RECOGNIZE THAT BLIMP!

>>30752397
cool

>>30739992
Probably helped make the one by my house. I live on the border and there's an aerostat balloon with surveillance equipment on it the border patrol uses

>>30740050
Why would you shoot a picture before throwing a camera out of a plane?

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The military uses blimps with cameras and lasers on them. They're tethered to the ground and under them are a bunch of conexes which serve as the command post for monitoring / controlling the cameras. When the blimps laze something it's like a giant beam from God himself shining down from the heavens.

BAF's (Bagram) CRAM accidentally shot theirs down a while back when it was engaging indirect fire.

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>>30739898
Highest of test

>>30752397
>>>30752340 (You)
>>All manpads are heat-seakers
>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowpipe_(missile)
>>The operator has to steer the missile all the way to its target manually
>kys faggot
If you knew anything about manpads, you would know, blowpipe was utter garbage, completly useless.
Also, how the fuck would mudslimes put their hands on those?
"Faggot" yourself

>>30739898

Amy Schumer's ass is a war machine?

>>30739898
I genuinely thought that was a fat ass at first glance