Officials don’t flat out say the terrorist threat, but they mention threats like anti-ship cruise missiles, drones with 10-foot wing spans, tactical ballistic missiles, large caliber rockets, and moving surface vehicles like swarming boats, mine-laying ships, automobiles and tanks. Marc Rotenberg executive director of The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) believes the threat is real all right, the threat to privacy that is. He said, "When the government is conducting real-time aerial surveillance within the United States, there are privacy issues that need to be addressed."
While officials claimed that, on a clear day, people in downtown Baltimore will be able to see the unmanned blimps from 16 – 19 miles away, one of the two 243-foot long blimps will have 360-degree surveillance capabilities allowing it to see up to 340 miles in any direction; that one is on the lookout for “threats,” while the second blimp carries a powerful integrated fire-control radar system “to detect, track and target a variety of threats.” Together, the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System – quite a mouthful that was shortened to JLENS – can “spot objects in the air from North Carolina to the Canadian border, and objects on the ground from Virginia to New Jersey.”
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