The US Army is to contemplate the build of an aircraft the size of a football field, is to become a reality or is this just another fantasy, the quote and link I give you below has quite a bit of information on it, I’ll tell you one thing though and that is that some of the artists photos of this aircraft remind me of Thunderbird 2! 😀

September 6, 2005 Moving an elephant atom by atom costs a lot more than moving the elephant in one pre-assembled lump. And that is what the US Army’s Project Walrus is about putting together an entire action unit of war machinery, with all the wiring and plumbing preinstalled, and placing it in the most strategic place. Whilst this would completely rewrite the way that war is conducted, the Walrus – a massive lozenge-shaped blimp the size of a football field capable of transporting 500 tons at a time – could offer solutions to myriad peacetime problems, opening land-locked countries to trade, enabling heavy construction materials to be delivered into urban centres with minimum disruption, freeing our highways of high volume, heavy loads, offering a more robust and agile air transportation network capable of absorbing disruptions due to weather or attack. Indeed, business logistics could again be completely rethought and streamlined because many physical transportation limits would no longer apply once a fleet of commercial walruses became available. The walrus does not require an airstrip and can land on water or on open ground.

Link to article at gizmag
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