US Army Revives Hybrid Airship Interest With LEMV

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From Flight Global:

Reviving interest in untethered lighter-than-air technology after a half-century hiatus, the US Army in January will kick-off a process to buy a long-endurance hybrid airship to deploy within 18 months to Afghanistan for surveillance missions.

Space and Missile Defense Command will issue a request for proposals for the long-endurance multi-intelligence vehicle (LEMV) contract on 29 January, the agency says.

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My Comment: What is old is new now .... but with modern tech. Hmmm .... Count von Zeppelin must be laughing right now.