Lockheed Martin [LMT] said it is continuing to work on a tethered blimp designed to provide real-time reconnaissance and surveillance 24 hours a day to soldiers in Afghanistan. The company is under a $345 million-contract with the Army to operated and sustain the Persistent Threat Detection System (PTDS). The Persistent Threat Detection System. Photo by Lockheed Martin PTDS is an aerostat-based system equipped with multiple sensors that provides low-cost, continuous communications and persistent surveillance capabilities that cannot be performed by…
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