When Northrop Grumman announced that it was building the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV), it looked as if the age of the great airships was returning. When the LEMV took to the air in ...

Reviving interest in untethered lighter-than-air technology after a half-century hiatus, the US Army in January will kick-off a process to buy a long-endurance hybrid airship to deploy within 18 ...

Northrop Grumman’s Long-Endurance Multi-intelligence Vehicle (LEMV), a 300-ft.-long surveillance airship intended for deployment to Afghanistan to fly unmanned for up to three weeks, has been ...

A third airship programme is trailing a few months behind, with at least two more to enter flight testing within two years. The resurgence of the buoyant aircraft type has been sudden, and the range ...

AIRSHIP CONTROL: AAI has received an $8.9 million contract from Northrop Grumman to provide a variant of its Universal Ground Control Station (UGCS) for the U.S. Army’s Long-Endurance ...

Moreover, the LEMV is designed to be "optionally manned," meaning it can carry a flight crew or be steered by ground-based operators, like a drone. For Tuesday's flight, the airship had a crew aboard, ...

The US Army’s Long-Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle took its very first flight on Tuesday, and things went as planned. The US Army’s Long-Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle took its very first ...

The military's distant dream of a floating eye in the sky may have become even more distant. Just over two months after the inaugural test flight of the Army’s giant robotic spy blimp -- and before a ...