Partly I am testing out the “Press This” toolbar button for WordPress, but this looks interesting anyway:
BBC – Newsbeat – New airships to protect British troops.
It’s a surveillance blimp. It can take a “small amount of small arms fire”. I’m sort of surprised blimps aren’t already used for a lot of the things satellites are used for. Presumably the practicalities don’t work out. Perhaps these military blimps are a sign that civilian blimps are about to be feasible.
I’m now planning to go to the Farnborough air show. Maybe I’ll see this blimp there.