Showing posts with label NORAD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NORAD. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Washington, D.C. gets Air Defense System that Obama Shut Down on U.S. Border

Breaking News: Obama has taken down a vital air defense system (TARS) from along the southern border of America, only to turn around and put the same Aerostat type of air defense system up around Washington, D.C..... Obama seems to be lowering protection on America’s borders while heightening protection of his fortress in Washington, D.C…..

Call your Congressman and Senators ask them not to let Obama stop protecting our Borders.

About a month ago I wrote an article that revealed Obama was Closing a vital Air Defense System on the Southern Border of the United States (click here to read article on Texas Conservative Republican News). The closing of the Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS) will leave America vulnerable to low flying aircraft with terrorists, weapons, human slave trafficking, even low flying missiles. This article drew a lot of attention and outrage, and someone has even started a We The People White House Petition asking Obama not to shut down TARS on the border.

These Aerostats on the southern border were used and controlled by the Air Force. Obama's budget cuts are forcing them to be shut down March 15th, 2013.

After I wrote the article, some liberals have tried to defend Obama shutting down TARS by saying that this Air Defense System was not that important, or only used for drugs, or not cost effective. Well then, if these Aerostats are not important, then why is the Obama JUST NOW launching them up around Washington, D.C.?

That is right. Obama removed this Air Defense System from along our vulnerable and dangerous southern border only to have the Army put the same type of Air Defense System up around Washington, D.C.

On February 1, 2013, Jim Wolf of News Daily wrote an article titled Blimps to bolster Washington's air shield in test.” The article revealed the deployment of these Air Defense Aerostats around Washington, D.C.

The article goes into depth explaining how these aerostats will be very cost effective compared to the alternatives, they will give the military more time to react because the aerostats detect incoming threats better than ground radars, and they will protect Washington from attacks/infiltrations from planes or missiles.

The interesting thing is that these reasons why Obama is launching the aerostats around D.C. are all the reasons why I said these aerostats are needed to stay on the southern border of the United States. Obama’s cronies tried to debunk all these reasons why the aerostats are needed on the southern border, but now that Obama is launching these aerostats around D.C., the Obama cronies are using my very same reasons to defend the launching of the Aerostats around D.C.

One thing is clear, President Obama is weakening the defenses of America.

He has already drawn down the National Guard troops on the border and now he is removing a vital air defense system that will allow America to be attacked low flying aircraft or missiles undetected from Florida to California. Also, don’t forget that once the drug cartels and terrorists know about the closing of TARS on the southern border, they will be coming over the border in small planed with weapons, human sex slaves, drugs, and anything else that they want to bring into America without having to go through a border checkpoint.  

In other news, Military Leaders are warning the Department of Defense that Obama’s military budget cuts would create “hollow force” like in 1970’s. These military leaders are claiming that Army brigades won’t be ready to fight. Navy aircraft carriers won’t be deployed. The Air Force won’t be able to operate radar surveillance 24 hours a day. We are sending fighter jets to Egypt but it was recently revealed that America is no longer even giving hot meals to many soldiers fighting in Afghanistan. Obama is destroying America, crippling the military, and leaving our borders vulnerable to attack.


Below are some excerpts from Jim Wolf’s Article:
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2013 (Reuters) — A pair of big, blimp-like craft, moored to the ground and flying as high as 10,000 feet, are to be added to a high-tech shield designed to protect the Washington D.C. area from air attack, at least for a while.
The bulbous, helium-filled "aerostats" - each more than three quarters the length of a football field at 243 feet - are to be stitched into existing defenses as part of an exercise of new technology ordered by the Defense Department.
The coming addition to the umbrella over Washington is known as Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System, or JLENS. Raytheon Co is the prime contractor.
NORAD, a binational command, is responsible for defending air space over the United States and Canada, including the Washington area with its many pieces of important infrastructure.
Operating as high as 10,000 feet for up to 30 days at a time, JLENS is meant to give the military more time to detect and react to threats, including cruise missiles and manned and unmanned aircraft, compared with ground-based radar.
The system is also designed to defend against tactical ballistic missiles, large caliber rockets and moving vehicles that could be used for attacks, including boats, cars and trucks.
A success in the U.S. capital area could give a boost to the JLENS program, which has been scaled back sharply along with the Pentagon's other 15 or so lighter-than-air vehicle efforts.
Blimp-like craft offer several advantages compared with fixed-wing aircraft, including lower cost, larger payload capacity and extended time aloft. However, their funding is to fall sharply as Pentagon spending shrinks to help pare trillion-dollar-a-year U.S. deficits.
Peter Huessy, a consultant on nuclear deterrence and missile defense, said the system would compliment current U.S. missile-defense capabilities.

Friday, January 18, 2013

Obama Closing Air Defense System on U.S./Mexico Border: Texas & America Vulnerable to Attack from Low Altitude Missiles and Aircraft

by David Bellow 1/18/2013

URGENT: Call your Congressman and Senators immediately and demand that the recent budget cuts do not affect the security of America’s borders. The Federal Government wastes billions of dollars on things they should not even be involved in, but securing our country’s borders is one of the jobs that the federal government is actually supposed to do!
Obama has always pushed massive cuts in the military as part of any budget cuts he will accept as part of any fiscal deals. Obama seems to be getting what he wants and it will leave AMERICA’s borders vulnerable to attacks and other infiltrations.
Air Force’s Air Defense Radar Systems along U.S./Mexico Border will SHUTDOWN on March 15th, 2013
On January 17th, 2013, Exelis Systems Corporation sent out an email (see email below) to all of its employees informing them that on March 15th, 2013 all TARS Air Defense Mission Operations will permanently cease. These TARS Air Defense sites were under the control of the United States Air Force. On January 15th, 2013, the Air Force informed Exelis (the defense contractor running the TARS sites) that the TARS sites will be shut down. Exelis tried to then negotiate with the Department of Homeland Security to see if they would take over the vital project, but it seems as though those negotiations have failed.
What does this mean?
This means the Southern Border of the United States of America will be more vulnerable to attack from low flying aircraft, low altitude missiles, and other infiltrations such as smuggling.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, one Exelis employee had this to say about the announced closure of the TARS sites:
“Not only will this closure mean hundreds of people will be out of jobs, but it also means our borders will not be safe, especially along the remote U.S. Mexico Border like in Texas. These defense radars detect low flying aircraft infiltrating our borders. Without these defense radars, low flying aircraft will go undetected. It will be open season for any drug/gun/slave smugglers, terrorists flying in with nukes low altitude missiles, or even a full scale low elevation invasion/attack against America.”
According to the Air Force’s website, the Tethered Aerostat Radar System, or TARS, is an aerostat-borne, surveillance program. Using the aerostat as a stationary airborne platform for a surveillance radar, the system is capable of detecting low altitude aircraft at the radar's maximum range by mitigating curvature of the earth and terrain masking limitations. TARS provides a detection and monitoring capability along the United States-Mexico border, the Florida Straits, and a portion of the Caribbean in support of the Department of Defense Counterdrug Program.

The primary agencies using the TARS surveillance data include U.S. Northern Command in support of Customs and Border Protection (Air and Marine Operations Center and Caribbean Air and Marine Operations Center) and U.S. Southern Command in support of Joint Interagency Task Force-South. In addition to its counterdrug mission, TARS surveillance data also supports North American Aerospace Defense Command's air sovereignty mission for the continental United States.

Email Sent to all Exelis Employees January 17th, 2013 Announcing Closure of TARS Air Defense Sites:

Subject: TARS Contract Update

Tuesday, 15 January 2013, we received a government request for a proposal (RfP) to de-scope and close the TARS program by the end of the fiscal year. The government indicated that it does not intend to exercise the final two option years for the TARS contract. In the RfP, the government also indicated its intent that aerostat flight operations will cease on March 15, 2013, and that the remainder of the fiscal year will be used to deflate aerostats, disposition equipment, and prepare sites for permanent closure. We are currently reviewing all the details of the RfP and evaluating the possible impacts on the program and our workforce. We continue to communicate with the government on this matter, and we will have more information in the coming days and weeks.
The TARS program provides a critical capability to the U.S. government and we should remain focused on providing that service in an uninterrupted and robust manner.
The best thing we can do right now is to continue to provide the outstanding TARS support that has become the Exelis hallmark, while allowing the company and the government time to continue discussions on how to best support the customer, the program, and our workforce.
We will provide regular updates as we know more. Should you have a specific question, please address them to Tim Green, Program Manager.

Tim Green, PMP
Program Manager
Tethered Aerostat Radar System
Exelis Systems Corporation