Re: Battle blimps

At 12:54 PM -0700 4/16/02, Brian Burger wrote:
>On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Michael Llaneza wrote:
>
>>  I smell a Harpoon scenario there.
>
>No, you just caught a whiff of whatever the PopMech editors smoke when
>they write these articles! :>
>
>I think they used the phrase 'laser cannons' at least five times... I
know
>there are serious proposals for bringing back the rigid airship in
various
>forms, including military, but PM is getting pretty goofy.

Considering the Laser that is on the ABL takes up the better part of 
a 747, I don't see this stuff being fitted to a blimp or semi-rigid 
any time soon.

>
>That said, I like rigid airships, they're cool, and more power to the
>ideas of bringing them back! Zepplin AGM in Germany is also back in the
>zepplin business; I think they've got their 2nd zep flying now

Is this the Zepplin NT that was bandied about a few years back?

I personally think Admiral Moffet had some good ideas as far as 
Airships and Fleet operations went. Things just didn't pan out very 
well for them operationally.

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