Border Patrol Blimps

Customs and Border Protection is gearing up to test some new high tech border surveillance: military blimps. CBP hopes they'll help find drug smugglers and people crossing the Mexico border illegally. The Wall Street Journal reports the military will test the $1 million blimps in the next few weeks. If all goes well, it could just give them to CBP free of charge. This is part of a bigger CBP attempt to revitalize its high-tech border security plan. Last year, Homeland Security pulled the plug on the troubled SBInet, the $1 billioin virtual fence of video cameras and radars.