ISR Airship Demonstrator to Fly in August
From defensenews.com: “A 240 foot-long surveillance and reconnaissance airship demonstrator will take its maiden flight in August, climbing to 60,000 feet over the U.S. state of Ohio and staying up there for two weeks or more. The Lockheed-Martin High Altitude Long Endurance Demonstrator, or HALE-D, will carry a camera, datalink and communications link. Its maiden flight from Lockheed Martin’s Akron, Ohio, facility will be an important first step toward showing that unmanned airships could provide persistent ISR capability, monitoring areas as large as Florida or Iraq for up to six months at a time.” ISR Airship Demonstrator to Fly in August
