Comments on: Airships With Unblinking Eyes https://www.isegoria.net/2010/06/airships-with-unblinking-eyes/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 31 May 2026 02:04:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2010/06/airships-with-unblinking-eyes/comment-page-1/#comment-5709 Isegoria Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:11:22 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=20553#comment-5709 My designs from three decades ago lacked the airfoil shape — but they had lasers. Who knew that the military would go on to seriously consider laser-armed airships?

]]> By: Siddhartha Vicious https://www.isegoria.net/2010/06/airships-with-unblinking-eyes/comment-page-1/#comment-5705 Siddhartha Vicious Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:05:15 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=20553#comment-5705 This looks very like a slow-frieght blimp that I designed on paper about 35 years ago (Gad, I’m old).

The main difference being that mine was not simply streamlined, but had an airfoil, ‘lifting body’ shape.

20,000 feet does not seem high enough to safeguard the craft in any semi-modern battlefield, by the way.

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