DefenceTalkThe US military has invested billions in blimp-like aircraft to track militants planting roadside bombs but the spyship experiment is losing altitude because of technical failures and changing priorities. The lighter-than-air projects were billed as an innovative revival of an old aircraft design to conduct “unblinking” surveillance on the battlefield — at a fraction of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-militarys-airship-programs-lose-altitude-49487/

DefenceTalkA huge helium-filled airship with military and commercial uses has been unveiled near Los Angeles. It is still experimental, but a full-sized working model should be finished in a few years. The prototype unveiled in this immense World War II hangar near Los Angeles is just half the size of the final working model. But […]https://www.defencetalk.com/giant-airship-could-move-huge-amounts-of-cargo-47052/