Russian Engineers Develop New Surveillance, Missile Defense Airships
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By GPD
Sputnik/Moscow: Russian engineers are designing new advanced airships which may become a potent element of the country’s anti-ballistic missile defenses.
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On May 6, 1937, the German passenger airship Hindenburg crashed in the US during a docking attempt, dealing a critical blow to the public’s faith in this method of transportation.And yet despite the fact that mankind has since perfected other methods of airborne transportation, blimps and dirigibles are still being used for a variety of purposes including military ones, and Russian Armed Forces are no exception.
Airships have a considerable number of advantages: they can carry a considerable amount of payload over va...