Showing posts with label Tethered Aerostat Radar System. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tethered Aerostat Radar System. 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.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Outrage Growing over Obama Cutting Homeland Security U.S. Border Air Defense System (TARS)

Texas Conservative Republican News
David Bellow Exclusive Story

Outrage is growing over news that Obama’s military cuts are going to impact our own homeland security by forcing the Air Force to close a vital air defense system along the ENTIRE southern border of the United States from Florida to California. Word is spreading like a wildfire on the internet and there is even a White House Petition to keep the Defense System.
This air defense system is known as TARS (Tethered Aerostat Radar System) and this system protects the southern border of the United States of America by detecting and monitoring low altitude aircraft, and even low altitude missiles.
Since that original article, there have been tens of thousands of people who have viewed the article and passed the article on to others. Word quickly spread across the internet about the issue, from trunews.com to ReaganCoalition.com to infowars.com
People are simply outraged that Obama is cutting a vital security system on our most dangerous border. At a time when there is human sex slave trafficking, gun running, cartel violence, and terror threats infiltrating, or attempting to infiltrate, our southern border, why is Obama making cuts to protecting the southern border? Instead of continuing to protect Americans from these threats, Obama is declaring that anyone with a low flying plane can now sneak into America undetected. Obama already made a widespread drawn down of National Guard troops on the southern border a couple of years ago. The troop draw down, although it should not have happened, could at least somewhat be justified by saying that there are now more border patrol agents on the border to take their place.  NOTHING can justify Obama shutting down this air defense system though. Extra border patrol agents cannot do anything to detect/monitor and relay info directly to NORAD and the Air Force when there is a low flying aircraft coming into America with possibly weapons, terrorists, human sex slaves.
Congressmen and Senators have NO idea that Obama is Closing this Air Defense System
Keep contacting your Congressman and Senators and demand that this Air Defense System not be cut! The pressure you are putting on them is starting to have an effect.
Several Congressional and Senatorial Offices (including Congressman Steve Stockman and Congressman Randy Neugebauer and Senator Ted Cruz) have already been contacted regarding this issue and there is a recurring theme. The recurring theme is that they were NEVER informed of this closing by the Air Force and that they are going to have to contact the Department of Defense to find out what is going on.
Why would Obama try to keep this on the down-low and not inform the legislative branch about this border security shutdown? The reason that Obama is keeping quiet about this issue is because he does not want the American people to know that he is actually willing to put Americans at risk with his budget cuts. Obama does not want people to know that our own homeland security will be jeopardized because of his budget cuts forcing the hand of the Air Force to cut important defense programs.
White House “We The People Petition” Created to Protect U.S. Border and Keeps TARS Air Defense. The petition asks Obama to Keep the Tethered Aerostat Radar System Operational in order to help secure the Southern Border of the United States. I don’t know who started this petition but it seems like a good idea to bring awareness, even if Obama probably doesn’t give a darn about these White House petitions and probably puts your name on a list of people who do not support him. I am already on his black list though I am sure so I do not care if he sees me sign the petition, and it looks good/gets more attention in the media to have alot of people sign the petition.
For the most part, the response to my original article about this issue has been very positive. There has been at least one leftist who has attacked me over the issue…
Liberal Blogger attacks Conservative Blogger David Bellow for Demanding that Obama Protects the Southern Border and Not Shut Down the TARS Air Defense System
A left leaning blog, Grits for Breakfast, wrote an article attacking me on this border security/air defense issue.  Several people came to my defense and left comments at the bottom of my article disputing what Grits was saying, but just for kicks, I will also dispute what Grits is saying so that all the other libs out there do not make his same mistake.
First, Grits for Breakfast says that as a conservative I should be happy about this program getting cut and we should trust that the Air Force is cutting it because it needs cut. What Grits does not understand is that conservatives are not against government spending. We are just against the out of control government spending on mostly entitlement programs and things the federal government does not need to spend our tax dollars on. One thing the Federal government is actually supposed to do, per the United States Constitution, is to protect America. So yes, as a conservative, I am ok with the federal government spending my tax dollars efficiently to do what they are supposed to do, like protecting the vulnerable borders of our sovereign nation. And as far as the Air Force thinking this program needs to be cut, well, we both know that the Air Force does not think this program needs to be cut. The Air Force is forced to cut programs because Obama has drastically cut the military and that means even important military programs are getting cut. Think about this, if this air defense program was not important, then why, to this day, does the Air Force send surveillance planes in the air to fill in when any Tethered Aerostat Radar goes down for maintenance. If the Aerostats were not important then the planes would not be needed to fill in for what the TARS system does when the TARS system is down for maintenance.
Second, Grits says that our State Troopers and Border Patrol do enough to protect our Texas border. This just shows that Grits really does not even know what the TARS program does. First of all, Texas State Troopers are on the ground and do not have radars all along the border to detect possible AIR infiltrations up to 200 miles BEFORE they even get to the border. Second, Grits only thinks this TARS system is on the Texas Border. This TARS system is on the entire southern border and even the Coast Guard in Puerto Rico and Florida (you know, by Cuba) uses it (no State Troopers there), not to mention that the TARS info is sent directly to places like NORAD and the Western Air Defense Sector which will scramble jets to react to a threat to out borders.

White House Petition Asks Obama Not to Shut Down TARS Air Defense System on Southern Border

White House “We The People Petition” Created to Protect U.S. Border and Keeps TARS Air Defense. The petition asks Obama to Keep the Tethered Aerostat Radar System Operational in order to help secure the Southern Border of the United States. I don’t know who started this petition but it seems like a good idea to bring awareness, even if Obama probably doesn’t give a darn about these White House petitions and probably puts your name on a list of people who do not support him. I am already on his black list though I am sure so I do not care if he sees me sign the petition, and it looks good/gets more attention in the media to have alot of people sign the petition.

Don't know what this petition is about?

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

we petition the obama administration to:

Keep the Tethered Aerostat Radar System Operational in order to help secure the Southern Border of the United States.

The Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS) is due to be shut down on 15 March. This shutdown will open one more door to those wishing to bring narcotics into our country or otherwise violate our Southern Border by removing a vital sensor system that is used by the Coast Guard, CBP, and other agencies. Direct the US Air Force and/or the Department of Homeland Security to continue operating this system in Puerto Rico, Florida, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. If we truly are concerned with the War on Drugs and wish to have a cost effective sensor to fight that war, then this sensor must remain active.
Created: Jan 19, 2013
Issues: Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement, Defense, Homeland Security and Disaster Relief

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