Some Army officials are pushing development of a small blimp equipped with an automated high-powered sniper rifle that could provide a form of inexpensive but effective air support for platoons in ...

When it’s in the sky, it may look just as big as any other airship. But if you take a closer look, that flying white sausage with the blue tail is a baby blimp, and it will be waddling over ...

The cradle is so large – roughly 400 feet long and 160 feet wide – Jacobs says it’s highly unlikely the comparatively small blimp seen in the satellite images can even use it. The cradle ...

What's interesting is that the patent includes plans for the blimps to provide advertising, too. In the patent, the inventors refer to an "advertising altitude" for the "airborne fulfillment center." ...

an open landing field about two to three times their size. “It can totally change how you conduct warfare,” Pasternak said of the concept. He envisions the aircraft as not a blimp or an ...

MIAMI (Reuters) - With oil prices rising sky-high, the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard will test a helium-filled blimp to see if it ... about the size of a Boeing 747, for the six-week test mission ...