Is 3600m that small?
Sure it's not much compared to fixed wing aircraft but for a wide area urban surveillance platform it should be more than enough considering the fuckhueg botnet payload they could carry compared to airplanes.
These things could host an array of sophisticated IR cameras with onboard hardware running all sorts of high intensity proprietary niggerware and still have space to spare for some high-gain antennae, cooling circuits for the cameras and other shit if we're talking about rigid airships.
They'd also have to deal with far less inflight turbulence and vibration than aerodyne-based surveillance platforms on top of the fact that disguising a glow in the dark Zeppelin as an advertising platform wouldn't be too difficult in the eyes of a public that doesn't know much about airships beyond the Hindenburg and Goodyear Blimps.
Airships
They are you uneducated fuck. Surveillance blimps have been a thing for years now although IIRC for many applications drones are starting to replace them but not for every situation
Take your meds.
China are already looking at doing this. They say it will be used to keep track of forest fires and similar shit but It's obvious what it will be used for. Mass aerial surveillance using planes with a camera capable of capturing a massive area have already been used in America/Mexico: bloomberg.com
Even though they can't (currently) identify you with the camera, they don't need to. If your indistinct dot is seen interacting with a dissident dot, they just follow your dot back to your place of residence then kick your door down. This becoming widespread will absolutely devastate organized crime networks, the only chance you'd have of evading it is if you live somewhere like a favela and can move large distances constantly going in and out of buildings.
They have been for about a decade, as part of the larger "electronic border" that exists near the US border. Everything within 100 miles of the border is under constant surveillance. We deployed these technologies in both Iraq and Afghanistan too.
OP, how old were you in 2000 when Bush took office? He's the one who started it almost 18 years ago. It was done after 9/11.
All cartels did was evolve, they either send people through inside normal looking cargo pallets or through the desert where it takes at least 2-3 hours for CBP to show up and intercept them (and usually won't especially if it's only 4-5 people, who for all they know might be innocent hunters or trappers).
Mass surveillance doesn't stop crime, it just pushes it underground. Most gangs are culled but a few evolve into proper racketeering, setting up front businesses to disguise their operation.
And this is what they're using to watch us.
youtube.com
If I might ask, where did you save this from? I see a lot of posts like this in dark theme and containing esoteric content, but I don't know where they could come from.
It's on mewch.net
all dark skinned threads are from there, that's where all the good posters are, this is just a loading dock for 4chan refugees. if you want good posts go there
Its not from there, no board on Mewch has 9552303 posts. Its probably from some board on here or halfchan with a dark theme and those two anons were samefags setting up a segue to shill for their website