美国的七件“国防神器”
机器人、无人机、激光制导！美国海军的预算虽然有所下降，但这并不会阻碍它打造面向未来的海军战斗力。
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Aeroscraft 在过去十年里，五角大楼重拾对大型飞艇的兴趣，因为它似乎是长时间空中侦察的理想平台，同时也可以为固定翼飞机去不了的地方运送物资（比如没有跑道的地方）。不过随着伊战和阿富汗战争的结束，五角大楼再次失去了对飞艇的兴趣，在过去几年里，美国海陆空三军各自砍掉了一个大型飞艇项目。 可能有些人仍然认为飞艇的第二个黄金时代会到来，好在我们还有Aeroscraft。这款飞艇是由加利弗尼亚洲的Worldwide Aeros Corp公司生产的，它可以提起66吨的重物并把它部署到其它某处，不受飞机跑道的限制。希望有一天这家公司会结束原型测试，让我们看到除了模型以外的东西。（财富中文网） 译者：朴成奎 |
Aeroscraft Over the past decade, the Pentagon found a renewed passion for large-scale, lighter-than-air airships, which seem like ideal platforms for long-duration surveillance and monitoring as well as for hauling cargo to places inhospitable to large fixed-wing aircraft (read: places with no runways). But with the wars in Iraq and now Afghanistan winding down, the Pentagon has lost interest in its massive airships, and the Navy, Air Force, and Army have each killed a massive air ship program over the last couple of years, essentially mothballing hundreds of millions in research and development. For those who still believe that a second golden age of airships is realistic even without Pentagon support, there's Aeroscraft. Designed by California-based Worldwide Aeros Corp., the lighter-than-air Aeroscraft could one day lift 66 tons vertically into the air and deposit it somewhere else, no runway necessary. One day, that is, when the company moves beyond testing with a scaled down prototype and gives us something to look at other than a model. |
