"Within a year, a pair of souped-up $2.7 billion blimps (price includes R&D) will be floated..."

“Within a year, a pair of souped-up $2.7 billion blimps (price includes R&D) will be floated 10,000 feet above the District of Columbia and act as a 340-mile-wide eye in the sky, detecting incoming missiles and the like.”

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Drone Blimps Will Now Protect Washington, D.C. From Cruise Missiles - Brian Resnick - The Atlantic

Of course.