Video: New U.S. Army airship flies for the first time

I would think the whole part of the surveillance thing would to be not seen. At longer than a football field it's gonna stick out like a sore thumb. Hopefullly this thing flys in the stratusphere.:confused:
 
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Head on, a blimp like a plane is hard to pick out unless they really want you to see them (lights or radio calls). I experienced this yesterday with the HOOD blimp whose primary white color blended well with the clouds behind it. They were up on the tower frequency and as they neared airport center, it was easier to identify them (and the HOOD logo certainly helped!).
 
Velocity173 said:
I would think the whole part of the surveillance thing would to be not seen.
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Do you want to catch someone doing something bad or discourage someone from doing something bad?
 
kyleb said:
Do you want to catch someone doing something bad or discourage someone from doing something bad?
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Being seen isn't going to discourage anyone. We have big fat aerostats all over Afghanistan and we still got hit by rockets/mortars. At least this thing doesn't have a tether on it that you have to look out for.
 
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BurtM said:
That's pretty cool.

But when did the Navy relinquish control of the airship fleet to the Army? Back in the 1920s-1930s, all the military airships were run by the Navy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Los_Angeles_(ZR-3)
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They haven't. The Army airship is the one flown here. The Navy has a blimp (MZ-3A) and the Air Force had a blimp in construction, but it got cancelled. To be honest with you, I never expected the LEMV to actually fly
 
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Not a blimp.
 
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