Singapore has a radar blimp. Why not get awacs?
>>64887901altitude? endurance/persistance?
too poor to get awacs most likely. i wouldnt expect moslim countries to understand how to use awacs anyways
>>64887901are you retarded
>>64887901The US Border Patrol uses those too.It's made by Lockheed.
>>64887901Its dirt cheap compared to an AWACS and while its not exactly the fastest thing around it'd work for coverage of some areas
>>64887941Also in use by Frontex for border surveillance. I guess they are cheaper than a drone and can stay in the air longer.
>>64887946yeah and they are stationary and easy to shoot down.
>>64887971By themselves, sure. But its a part of an integrated system, so its already likely seen who's sneaking around out there to shoot at it long before the shooter gets into range.
>>64887901Makes sense, take the price of your AWACS plane, radar, maintenance, fuel and crew training and divide it by the cost of the blimp + radar.If you want the radars for defence and don't plan to invade anyone a value as low as 2 makes it worth while and a value of 4+ makes it a no brainer.
>>64887971And how long do you think the hellfire would take to find you?
>>64887901AWACs planes are very very expensive and also easy to shoot down. Therefore you only deploy them if you control a large enough area of airspace such that you can operate them from beyond the range of immediate threats, and you have enough fighters to keep them protected.
>>64887901It doesn't need to move at all, Singapore is only 30 miles wide at most.
>>64887901AWACS are expensive and hard to maintain without domestic production of at least parts.
>>64888120Exactly this
It seems more valuable for civilian air traffic control than military use.
>>64887918blimps can do both better than most airplanes>>64887971>>64887977If it gets shot down consider yourself warned.
>>64887901Fuck you blimps are cool.
>>64887901>ballpark alt of 4500m~Its a respectable horizon considering you could just make a wall of them along the island chains.
>>64888297>Manilla, Singapore You okay anon?
>>64887901*notices bulge*
I wish somebody built a dirigible (i.e. a [semi]rigid aerostat) AWACS.
>>64887901That's awacs.
