Lockheed Martin's Secretly Built Airship Makes First Flight

Found this and thought it was cool so what do you all think? I wonder if there is really a good role for airships in this era, but you can never tell.

Now a stealth airship would really be cool.

Lockheed Martin Advanced Development Projects is making perhaps the first realistic tests of a hybrid airship--a concept that dates back many decades but that is just now being tried at a significant scale.

The Skunk Works had secretly built the craft and hoped for a quiet first flight at its Palmdale, Calif., facility, but a few passers-by noticed the strange object in the sky.
SKUNKS WORKING

Looks cool anyway.

Originally posted by LDragonFire

Found this and thought it was cool so what do you all think? I wonder if there is really a good role for airships in this era, but you can never tell.

Thanks for the post LDragonFire. This article is 2 years old and we have discussed this at length here on ATS. You might want to search for the thread for thoughts on it, I have lost track of it.

Thanks for the post.