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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

21st century airships may join Navy fleet

Airship that can travel over 90mph could by used by Royal NavyModern-day Zeppelins will take to the sky for the first time since the First World War when the US Army begins using airships in Afghanistan.

But Navy chiefs are now giving serious consideration to purchasing an airship from the Bedfordshire-based Hybrid Air Vehicles to provide surveillance and re-supply runs to aircraft carriers, The Daily Telegraph can discose.

Scientists from the defence company Northrop Grumman have given briefings to the Navy on the latest airship that is about to enter military service.

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