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| Milites Gregarius | Post; Heavy-Lift Airships?I like the idea of being ableto airlift 500-1000 tons of soldiers and equipment straight into the field. I hope the concept proves feasible. http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/...ound/index.php |
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| Tribuni Angusticlavii | But it would make one hell of a target, now a C7 could drop a hundred men in a few seconds at six hundred feet and they would all be on the ground in six seconds. Just how long would it take an airship to come into land and to get every one off.
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| Centurion | those airships would only be useful in a controled combat zone, because they pose to big of a target and are to slow.
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| Chief Engineer ![]() | I agree with Le Enfield. Furthermore as Canadian Combat said they would make alovely target for the RPG-7 and other weapons of that sort.
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| Tribuni Angusticlavii | They've been toying around with using them for intra-theater transport. I think the project is functionally dead since i really haven't heard anything promissing out of it since 2003 I think. I may be wrong but nothing has hit my ears. Canadian and tomtom - Airships where turned to in the wake of the LONG time it took to deploy back in desert storm as perhaps a quicker solution than ships and a more cost effective solution than airplanes. They arn't meant to fly over enemy territory. |
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| Chief Engineer ![]() | In today's battlefields, enemy or friendly territory is hard to define. |
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| Milforum Gnat | hah! Imagine there is this big airplane which can tranport whole battalion of army into the battlefront! It would be an awesome site!
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| Primus Pilus | Graf zeppelin again? From my view,those airship can,t trasport battlefr ont because of weakness. However, career airplane is also the same as this point. |
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