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Contractor for temporary use by the federal government. for people just joining us, we're coming up on 4:00 p.m. eastern time. this is something aggressive marketed by raytheon, the aerospace contractor, toward people who are decision-makers in the homeland security business as a way to keep your airspace safe. this has a broad reach, radar pod, several of them aloft. you can keep it at 10,000 feet over a population center, and it can detect, or so it is marketed, it can detect incoming, terrain-following cruise missiles and just as quickly send a message to a ground station to destroy them. j...

The front section is kind of aiming to the upper right of the picture. then there's the radar pod, more or less at midship, and then the tail section, and what may be the blessing here, what was first reported by jim miklaszewski at the pentagon, the leak or deflation, we don't know how, in the tail section of this airship, may be the blessing that brought it down, slowed it down. but jim miklaszewski, the problem is this tether. anything strong enough to keep this thing aloft at 10,000 feet, is going to be strong enough to cause a lot of damage on the earth. >> absolutely. and it's described ...

Be able to pick up people. lea gabriel has more. what's the point here? >> you know i flew f-18s and one way we attacked targets is fly really low going into an area, basically below the radar to avoid being ticketed. that's not ideal for an airplane but that's the way long-range cruise missiles work and that's what the system is designed to address. there's a radar pod built into the underbelly, allowing it to see over obstructions such as mountains. people who make i say it gives our defense systems an early warning, listen. >> conventional radar can detect a cruise missile only seconds way....