Balloon-mounted cameras serve as eyes in the Afghan sky
The United States is stepping up its game in Afghanistan with $1 billion worth of gear to help with the rising threats this spring.
In an effort to head off a spring Taliban offensive, about $1 billion worth of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance gear, is being added to the Afghanistan surge, writes Spencer Ackerman of Wired's Danger Room.
The new gear includes balloon-mounted cameras that can be tethered to base towers to assist troops in detecting homemade bombs--a rising threat in the region.
The Army also is looking into dummy camera-balloon systems as a way to deter insurgents, the article states.
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