What Can I Get From a Balloon?

It was previously known that the Army was exploring using balloons floating in the stratosphere, which begins its altitude range from 23,000 feet to 66,000 feet. As part of the larger MDSS network, they would fill something of a gap between traditional ground base and aerial ISR and communications platforms in space based systems. The atmosphere is not as thick as we think it is. It's only five to seven kilometers thick. So you can have, you know, your battlefield drones flying over. You can have your high altitude loitering drones fly over. And then you can have satellites looking at huge swas of territory.

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