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Contractor. the result, 17 years after its birth, jlens is a stark example of what defense specialists call a zombie program, costly, ineffectual and seemingly impossible to kill. the blimp was not so lucky. as it started to deflate, it eventually came down on its own. ♪ ♪ [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. ♪ [ birds squawking ] my mom makes airplane engines that can talk.

The result, 17 years after its birth, jlens is a stark example of what defense specialists call a zombie program, costly, ineffectual and seemingly impossible to kill. the blimp was not so lucky. as it started to deflate, it eventually came down on its own.

Want to talk about iran, russia, syria, all that in a moment but this military blimp that simply got untethered, floating around pennsylvania. this is billions of dollars invested in these blimps and some suggested this is a waste of money. have you looked into the program? >> we had general briefings on this so far. there hasnt been any blame but obviously there is clearly human error in this. this shouldnt happen under ordinary circumstances. >> remember when the gyro cop ter was floating arou...

April? well, when that happened, there were questions about why that person was never detected, how he was able to get through and fly a small helicopter-like vehicle into restricted airspace. so they had these hearings on capital hill, at which representative jason chaffetz of utah demanded to know how this could happen and questioned the north american airspace command about why this balloon wouldnt have detected this. the newspaper called j lens a stark example of what defense specialists cal...