aerostat

Why These Badass Balloons Are the Pentagon's New Secret Weapon New long-range U.S. weapons will be able to hit tactical targets like missile bases and air-defense radar from a thousand miles away or more, but only if they have aerial scouts to pinpoint their targets. The U.S. military has used...

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...

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;D Buoyant Airborne Turbine BAT Can Bring Power to Remote Locations A Massachusetts company will soon deploy a portable wind energy system using a conventional turbine blade inside a cylindrical blimp that floats about 1,000 feet above the ground, drawing on the stronger winds at that...

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...

The recent near space manoeuvring thread features work by J P Aerospace and got me thinking that their airship to orbit (ATO) programme deserves its own thread. ATO is one of the more original (many say impossible!) ideas for getting to LEO. Following ATO description is taken from attached PDF...

When was the technology available for the introduction of SkyCats should a demand for their capability arise earlier?