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High-altitude airships for the future force Army / Lewis Jamison, Geoffrey S. Sommer, Isaac R. Porche, III.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Jamison, Lewis.
- Series:
- Technical report (Rand Corporation)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Airships--United States.
- Airships.
- Military airships--United States.
- Military airships.
- Command and control systems--United States.
- Command and control systems.
- Military surveillance--United States.
- Military surveillance.
- United States. Army--Aviation.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 49 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, 2005.
- Summary:
- Across the services, there is an increasing demand for overhead communications capacity. New, lighter-than-air (LTA) vehicles that operate at very high altitudes have an obvious attraction for planners of surveillance and communication missions; the ability to see to a more distant horizon results in greatly expanded surveillance volumes. This report informs the U.S. Army about the usefulness and limitations of high-altitude airships (HAA) in the role of platforms for communications and surveillance suites in theater battlespace. Potential alternatives are solar-powered HAA and airplanes flying at 65,000 feet or above that can remain geostationary for months. Potentially, HAA may provide communications satellite capabilities for the WIN-T network that are less expensive than satellites and may support a Global Hawk-like surveillance package in the Multi-Sensor Command and Control Constellation (MC2C). HAA performance issues include engine power, envelope strength, and permeability, solar-cell power, fuel-cell capacity, weather, launch and recovery, and air defense survivability.
- Notes:
- "Prepared for the United States Army."
- "Arroyo Center."
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