This is definitely not the Stealth Blimp

This is definitely not the stealth blimp

Hi,

This is definitely not the stealth blimp. You could not find the specifications for its range and load bearing capacity on line with a quick search. Why are’nt we building these things like crazy to move goods from one side of the country to the other.  Who are these things protecting us from exactly?  You could replace all of the trains and trucks in the country with these things and reduce fuel consumption and carbon ft prnts etc…   Wake up!!   I shake my head in your general direction, people who should have head shaken at them!!! 

Per website: http://www.thestealthblimp.com/ sails about at the very edge of space--up to 100,000 feet (30 km), which is well into the stratosphere well above the 42,000 foot maximum ceiling of commercial airliners.

 Shortly after these documents were issued, the program became classified and Lockheed Martin made no further press releases. However, it’s a matter of public record among those in the industry that Lockheed has always been interested in airships for military purposes, and a telling 1982 diagram of a “stealth blimp” is featured in Popular Mechanics, September 1999, page 64 (with supporting notes on page 119).

Popular Mechanics’ stealth blimp diagram.

According to a SPACE.com interview with L Scott Miller, professor of Aerospace Engineering at Wichita State University in Kansas, and a distinguished lecturer of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA),

Lockheed has shown a great deal of interest in airships for many years. The real question is whether the Department of Defense has committed to buy and use such machines. I do think that a large airship, with a heavy lift and other mission objectives, has been built.

But it is definitely not the Stealth blimp... really