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Title: Revealed: The U.S. Military's Super-Secret Deep-Sea Spy Operations
Post by: DemolitionMan on September 26, 2017, 07:48:03 pm

by Steve Weintz

The invention of syntactic foam, a buoyant material made of tiny air-filled glass beads embedded in plastic, spelled the end of the bathyscaphe and its dangerous, fragile gasoline balloon. Trieste II entered retirement as a museum display at the Naval Undersea Museum. The last remaining KH-9 satellite, an engineering prototype, was to have become a centerpiece of the National Air and Space Museum's new exhibit space, but don't hold your breath waiting to see it anytime soon.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/revealed-the-us-militarys-super-secret-deep-sea-spy-22473

Title: Re: Revealed: The U.S. Military's Super-Secret Deep-Sea Spy Operations
Post by: DemolitionMan on September 26, 2017, 07:51:46 pm

(http://i66.tinypic.com/8xk7cx.jpg)

KH-9 spy satellite