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Onboard. blimps designed to work in tandem. >> the first is to do broad surveillance and look up for threats over the horizon about 340 miles. the second aerostat is designed to hone in on a potential threat and fuel it for another web system like a fighter jet even a patriot missile defense system. and the radar is contained in a pod underneath right here. >> norad officials say it was the second targeting blimp which came unmoored. the two errstads are designed to detect cruise missiles, low-flying aircraft and project tiles. now critics are calling the crashed white blimp a white elephant. ...

Designed to hone in on a potential threat and target and queue it for another weapon system like a fighter jet or a even the patriot missile defense system and in both the aero stats, the radar is contain in a pod underneath right here. >> reporter: norad officials say it was the second targeting blimp. the two aero stats are designed to detect cruise missiles and projectiles but tonight critics are calling the crashed white blimp a white elephant. a 2012 pentagon report sited the low system reliability, and an l.a. times investigation published last month said the program was slow to role out...

And, well, this white blimp is a bit of a white elephant thus far. and today one more thing to think about as the pentagon spends $2.5 billion on this program. >> $2.5 billion? >> it's a big program. >> for these two -- >> well, it's an overall program. i think the blimp itself is in the nine figures $180 million or so, it's an expensive project. there's no question it does afford a measure of defense. operating in tandem with the targeting blimp, this is the surveillance blimp. and if there were a slow low attack, presumably it would see it. but it's got to be operational. and it's been very ...