To assist U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the United States Army will build its LEMV surveillance ship. This surveillance airship is longer than a football field. It can carry 2,500-pounds while hovering 20,000-feet above sea level at a whopping 34 mph.
LEMV will sustain altitudes of 20,000 feet for a three-week period and it will operate within national and international airspace.
They are expected to go into use by the end of 2011.
Three ships will be made, and the Army will pay 517 million dollars for this project.
Maybe my favorite niece can bring her Uncle Marty one of these home
after her Lockheed-Martin summer internship is over....
just for a weekend.
They should have designed it to look like "Underdog".......
then again....
that is probably why I am not on a summer internship.
Marty
Effingham, IL
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