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2011-07-26 Science & Technology
Unmanned high altitude airship to undergo maiden flight over Ohio
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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-07-26 07:56|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 no balloon-boy?
Posted by Frank G 2011-07-26 10:00||   2011-07-26 10:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Airships seem to have a perpetual, general purpose curse on them. About the only long term success story with them are the Goodyear blimps.

And yet, there is a huge military need for such airships, as they can perform detailed surveillance over a vast area; act as a very high bandwidth communications relay; as a much more powerful AWACS controlling the airspace of an entire region; and even working as part of an anti-ballistic missile system.
Posted by Anonymoose 2011-07-26 10:44||   2011-07-26 10:44|| Front Page Top

#3 It is a cover story for the invasion of the evil hobbits from planet Obama.
Posted by Black Bart Elmonter8235 2011-07-26 13:14||   2011-07-26 13:14|| Front Page Top

#4 
Airships seem to have a perpetual, general purpose curse on them.


This one, for example, is in Akron.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2011-07-26 18:20||   2011-07-26 18:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Mariah is hating on airships always.
Posted by S 2011-07-26 18:30||   2011-07-26 18:30|| Front Page Top

#6 US-WORLD NAVAL AIRCRAFT CARRIERS = GREAT OR MASSIVE "OFFENSIVE" POWER BUT ALSO GREAT VULNERABILITY.

Ditto HT AIRSHIPS as per GREAT OR MASSIVE "DEFENSIVE" POWER MIXED WID GREAT VULNERABILITY.

Think integrated "a fully-armed B52 BUFF, Recce-SPAWAR, AC130 SPECTRE, andor BMD Sys that hardly or never leaves a combat area or strategic zone".

AFAIK the US Army + USDOD-DARPA are dev WIP designs for utility as an AIRBORNE RR = ORBITAL TROOPS, CARGO LARGE-UNIT/QUANTITY MIL TRANSPORT.

The Cold War Soviets recognized the above potential of Airships + deemed it as inherently "destabilizing", demanding that neither US-NATO nor their own WARSAW PACT ever develop + deploy same for military purposes.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-07-26 19:21||   2011-07-26 19:21|| Front Page Top

#7 There has been some very good systems. RAID was one that deployed balloons on a cable high above Baghdad and gave great intel on the plantings of IED's. The future is remote control and it's very Orwellian.
Posted by newc 2011-07-26 22:53||   2011-07-26 22:53|| Front Page Top

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