Hybrid Airship Will Deploy to Afghanistan in 2011

via gizmodo.com

Found this via Slashdot, and it fit well into my Afghanistan reading this morning.

The video is of the Lockheed Martin prototype flying in 2006. The newer version is bigger.

http://gizmodo.com/5366082/250+foot-long-hybrid-airship-will-spy-over-afghanistan-battlefields-in-2011.

This technology is coming fast, and may prove to be a very cost effective way to get sensors over the battlefield, particularly in environments like Afghanistan and Iraq where there is no air defense.

I wonder what William Gibson thinks of this?

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