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These blimps have been used for well over a decade in the southern US border to detect low flying drug smuggling aircraft.



For example, the aerostat that's been tethered at cudjoe key since about 1980.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethered_Aerostat_Radar_Syste...




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