Not a journalist I place a lot of credence with so take with pinch of salt:
Satellite photos reveal colossal airship hangar in Chinese desert
Keen to know if other sources on this.
I went deep down the rabbit hole today and stumbled into these two Aerostat vids from sometime in the 90s.
First one up is the classic JLENS missile defense role for both cruise and ballistic missiles in conjunction with Patriot, THAAD, etc
The second one I found more interesting as it was a...
"Paris Air Show 2015: Lockheed Martin unveils new heavy-lift hybrid airship"
Gareth Jennings, London - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
17 June 2015
Source:
http://www.janes.com/article/52319/paris-air-show-2015-lockheed-martin-unveils-new-heavy-lift-hybrid-airship
Hi,
The idea of a supersonic lighter than air aircraft or aerostat came to me years ago, since it was something never done or even thought before, at least that's according to what i know.
the first design was quite similar to lifting bodies and was manned, after a while i reshaped it to what...
At some point during the late 1960s, the Goodyear company studied the possibility of a new giant rectangular transport airship category which they called "Dynastat".
Source: AERIAL VERY HEAVY LIFT CONCEPTS FOR THE 1990 ARMY VOLUME III - ACADEMIC & INDUSTRIAL PRESENTATIONS (U.S. Army, November...
Rethinking Heavy Lift
May 6, 2011
By Bill Sweetman
Washington
Under a little-publicized program sponsored by the Pentagon, a small Southern California company is working on a design that is radical even by the quirky standards of buoyancy-aided aircraft: a rigid-hulled aircraft that...
Giant...V-shaped...blimp... (who said Phoenix Lights?)
Seems topical at the moment:
(aka 'Ascender')
Lowering the High Ground: Using Near-Space Vehicles for Persistent ISR (a Thesis):
www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cst/bugs_ch04.pdf
TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF LOITERING LIGHTER-THAN-AIR...
Overscan, is it allowed to create a thread regarding airships ;) ?
Around 1964 the US company Aereon built an interesting nameless(?) airship.
1. Did it ever fly?
2. Is the marked area (see arrow) the cabin for pilot and second person?
3. Has it a name/designation?
4. I'm still looking for...
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