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[–] KidQuantum 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Each blimp is $175 million. The entire program is $2.4 billion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JLENS

That being said, JLENS doesn't work. It's an enormous piece of shit.

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[–] KidQuantum 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The cost or piece of shitiness? :-)

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[–] AmazingFlightLizard ago 

I swear there has got to be more than two of these. Just about every FOB I flew in and out of in Iraq and Afghanistan had one. I don't think they were following me around.

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[–] KidQuantum ago 

Thanks for your service. What you saw at the FOBs were RAID aerostats. Rapid aerostat initial deployment I think. About half the size of a JLENS.