10 Highlights From Tom Coburn's Wastebook

10 Highlights From Tom Coburn's Wastebook

The Fiscal Times Staff  // 

Botched Blimp — $300 million

The Army spent three and a half years and nearly $300 million building a football field-sized blimp called the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle, to provide continuous surveillance over Afghanistan battlefields, but the project was riddled with errors and cost-overruns so the Army eventually just sold it back to the contractor.

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