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Usually when we thing on air balloons and airships we thing recreation and fun, but there is more to them.
Reading a post by Robin Burk he mentioned another aspect of airships.
Will briefed his team’s implementation plan for a sensor package on High Altitude Airships for battlefield recon and surveillance
apparently they can have important applications for the army and the navy as can be seen here
Quite impressing don’t you think?
In the meantime Venezuela has started using a Zeppelin to Patrol Caracas from above.
And back home they are probably going to be used by homeland security. Someone might think that using airships right after Venezuela says something about the government…Venezuela launched a Zeppelin on Thursday to patrol Caracas, seeking to fight crime in one of Latin America’s most dangerous cities but also raising fears that President Hugo Chavez could be turning into Big Brother.
Around the hot-dog stalls of the run-down suburb where the airship took its first flight, most people felt the unmanned eye-in-the-sky could help counter routine hold-ups, shootings and carjackings.
