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2007-04-13 Home Front: Politix

US border patrol to deploy 98' networked radar towers

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Posted by trailing wife 2007-04-13 07:47|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 8 to 30 billion dollar cost but we cant afford a fence?

Posted by BrerRabbit 2007-04-13 08:26|| 2007-04-13 08:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Moments later, the Agent locates the illegal aliens and makes the apprehensions.
And in an hour or so Homeland [IN]Security releases them inside the US with only a promise to appear in court.

There fixed it for ya!

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-04-13 08:41|| 2007-04-13 08:41|| Front Page Top

#3 As Hadrian's Wall and the Great Wall demonstrated, if you don't have the manpower and will to back it up, no wall will impede those intent upon ~~raping, pillaging, looting~~ coming over.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-04-13 09:34|| 2007-04-13 09:34|| Front Page Top

#4 The Secure Border Initiative includes provisions to end "catch and release" and to build additional fencing, as well as the deployment of a variety of sensing technologies along the border.

Posted by Biff Wellington 2007-04-13 11:25|| 2007-04-13 11:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe they can put that new 'heat ray' on the towers - detect with radar, aim & confirm with camera, then 'broil'.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-04-13 11:37|| 2007-04-13 11:37|| Front Page Top

#6 As long as the data is fed to the automated guns, I don't care how the towers work, etc.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2007-04-13 11:46|| 2007-04-13 11:46|| Front Page Top

#7 8 to 30 billion dollars, that's some spread. I guess that means it would really cost 100 billion when it's all said and done.

Do these people that estimate these costs drag the number out of their ass? Oh! Wait. Never mind...

Posted by Natural Law 2007-04-13 14:13|| 2007-04-13 14:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Brer Rabbit -

It's actually quite simple. We can afford this and not a fence, because Boeing doesn't make fences. Since Lockheed Martin won both the F-22 and F-35 contracts (and therefore has guaranted work for roughly the next two decades), and since the next big aircraft contract will be the B-52/B-1 replacement that will start preliminary work around 2015 (and only Boeing really has a chance at that one), the major aerospace companies have basically become technology providers in search of missions. Pork and the need to keep the manufacturing base open and running will do the rest.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-04-13 14:14|| 2007-04-13 14:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Math, anyone?

The rule:
1.17 times the square root of your height of eye = Distance to the horizon in nautical miles

Sq. Rt. of 98 = 9.9
1.17 * 9.9 = 11.58 Nautical miles

It can see both ways along the border, so each 98' tower can cover about 23 naut. mi. of border.

How long is that border, again?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-04-13 14:16|| 2007-04-13 14:16|| Front Page Top

#10 But mojo, the US-Mexico border is on dry land. So the answer must be zero nautical miles, right? ;-)

/end anti-Barbie says, "Arithmetic's easy when you think mathematically!"

Posted by trailing wife 2007-04-13 15:35|| 2007-04-13 15:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Figure this: some terrain is simply too rough and has too many dead zones. Other is urban. You need patrolled fences in those areas.

I spent enough time setting up and then evading GSR's to know that they are not a perfect solution, but properly used, along with fences, LP/OP's, observers, patrols and overhead observation, they can be effective. Main thing is to get the other routes covered with barriers.

In the military we'd simply use a minefield. How bout this: minefield full of "bouncing bettys" loaded with infrared flourescing dye that stains the skin, and fires a trip flare, as well as radioing in the detonation.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-04-13 21:29|| 2007-04-13 21:29|| Front Page Top

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