There is a joke in here somewhere about government waste, a joke about Chris Christie and the ineffectiveness of blimps as modern day weapons of war. I’ll let the commenters figure those out though.
Via Fox News:
JLENS blimp that has been tethered at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland has broken free Wednesday and is being tracked by two fighter jets traveling over Pennsylvania at 16,000 feet, a NORAD spokesman said.
JLENS is short for Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor. The craft looks like a blimp, but the tether technically means it is an aerostat. The craft is the size of a football field and cost about $180 million each.