Pentagon blimp is 25 times size of Goodyear's
 

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Pentagon blimp is 25 times size of Goodyear's


Associated Press
Sept. 30, 2003 07:29 AM


AKRON, Ohio - It's back to the future for the Pentagon.

The latest high-tech weapon might look awfully familiar to a World War I Zeppelin pilot. Lockheed Martin has a contract worth at least $40 million to develop a high-altitude airship for use in homeland defense.

The solar-powered and helium-filled airship would patrol at 65,000 feet and be 25 times larger than the Goodyear blimp.

Lockheed Martin officials say the airship is a great marriage of old and new technologies.

While the view might be great from way up there, no one will get to see it. The high-tech airship will be unmanned and operated from the ground via computer controls