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

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.

those airships would only be useful in a controled combat zone, because they pose to big of a target and are to slow.

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.

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.

In today's battlefields, enemy or friendly territory is hard to define.

Originally Posted by tomtom22

In today's battlefields, enemy or friendly territory is hard to define.

No, it really isn't. How many soldiers did we lose to enemy fire while staging for Afghanistan and Iraq? Combined less than the 92' Gulf War if I'm not mistaken.

Originally Posted by Whispering Death

No, it really isn't. How many soldiers did we lose to enemy fire while staging for Afghanistan and Iraq? Combined less than the 92' Gulf War if I'm not mistaken.

You mean '91. They just had to put that "2" beside the "1," sheesh!

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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