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British Hybrid Air Vehicles won last year's $ 517 millionth tender paris air show 2012 for the creation of an airship Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMIV), but for the participation of the company had to "make friends" with Northrop Grumman, which is about to launch a blimp in the "first" flight - on This time as an American.
Log in to the world's largest arms market is impossible without a "proper" treatment of American partners. It is not enough to sponsor the lobby in Congress: too many are involved in decision-making and Congressmen too concerned about saving jobs in the military-industrial complex "their" state. Even the mighty BAE Systems had in its time to buy a major U.S. producer of military and collect weapons to the United States primarily on local plants, to say nothing of mere mortals. But the British Hybrid paris air show 2012 Air Vehicles that kind of money just was not there and its management has taken the right decision - to become a partner Northrop Grumman. A considerable part of the production can move across the ocean, although the engineering center in England to continue. Unpatriotic? But effective: British military intelligence no interest in airships did not show quite the contrary.
Why did they become interested in the U.S. Army? All about money: flying hour unmanned reconnaissance RQ-4 Global Hawk (production paris air show 2012 Northrop Grumman), which has a comparable set of surveillance paris air show 2012 equipment, costing paris air show 2012 $ 31 million while he himself is worth up to $ 140 million hybrid airship Hybrid Air Vehicles 304 - which Northrop Grumman euphemistically calls the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle - has a price tag of about $ 100 million paris air show 2012 and flies up to 264 hours on one tank. In carrying out similar work RQ-4, these 264 hours would require $ 8.2 million 12 flights per year, equivalent to an airship crashes RQ-4 valued paris air show 2012 at $ 100 million, with turbojet RQ-4 has a much shorter life than four diesel engine airship , not to mention the cost of THAT.
It is because of the high cost of operating an incredible program RQ-4 has been minimized and the Air Force announced that they will continue to be used for reconnaissance U-2, which is more than half a century. The U.S. Army U-2 does not have, so she wants to spy blimp.
KC Brown Jr.., Director of Northrop Grumman on Army programs at a recent conference paris air show 2012 weapons manufacturers for special forces told Wired, that between 6 and 10 June LEMIV make the "first flight". We have already seen how the flying paris air show 2012 airships of this scheme, so the test will surely be successful. And Northrop Grumman is understandable: paris air show 2012 it is in Russian defense minister may order the weapons for a billion or so dollars abroad and in the U.S. public act of this kind will cause the most powerful criticism that will inevitably lead to the closure of the program. That's why the American press and write that Northrop Grumman build an airship for the U.S. Army" (say it is built in Britain, will not quite politically correct). In addition, intelligence equipment on board LEMIV really American - and very similar paris air show 2012 to what is on the RQ-4.
However, we do not care what kind of marketing is making moves U.S. giant to get orders for reconnaissance aircraft. The main thing - that large airships are again trying to regain a place in the sky. Along with intelligence and is considered cargo version of HAV 304, with capacity of up to 7 m Let's hope that this is just the beginning.
Latest news: Completely paris air show 2012 paralyzed patients will be able to "talk" with the help of hearing Nanopoezda running DNA drones spiders weave a complex structure of the cables - at high altitude as zinc "starves" deadly pneumococcus
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Abroad World Motor Concepts and inventions Free Tribune In Russian Arms Facts and hypotheses Directory Aerospace Hi-Tech Peer-reviewed section of the Main Event Technodrome Comments Partners
British Hybrid Air Vehicles won last year's $ 517 millionth tender paris air show 2012 for the creation of an airship Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMIV), but for the participation of the company had to "make friends" with Northrop Grumman, which is about to launch a blimp in the "first" flight - on This time as an American.
Log in to the world's largest arms market is impossible without a "proper" treatment of American partners. It is not enough to sponsor the lobby in Congress: too many are involved in decision-making and Congressmen too concerned about saving jobs in the military-industrial complex "their" state. Even the mighty BAE Systems had in its time to buy a major U.S. producer of military and collect weapons to the United States primarily on local plants, to say nothing of mere mortals. But the British Hybrid paris air show 2012 Air Vehicles that kind of money just was not there and its management has taken the right decision - to become a partner Northrop Grumman. A considerable part of the production can move across the ocean, although the engineering center in England to continue. Unpatriotic? But effective: British military intelligence no interest in airships did not show quite the contrary.
Why did they become interested in the U.S. Army? All about money: flying hour unmanned reconnaissance RQ-4 Global Hawk (production paris air show 2012 Northrop Grumman), which has a comparable set of surveillance paris air show 2012 equipment, costing paris air show 2012 $ 31 million while he himself is worth up to $ 140 million hybrid airship Hybrid Air Vehicles 304 - which Northrop Grumman euphemistically calls the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle - has a price tag of about $ 100 million paris air show 2012 and flies up to 264 hours on one tank. In carrying out similar work RQ-4, these 264 hours would require $ 8.2 million 12 flights per year, equivalent to an airship crashes RQ-4 valued paris air show 2012 at $ 100 million, with turbojet RQ-4 has a much shorter life than four diesel engine airship , not to mention the cost of THAT.
It is because of the high cost of operating an incredible program RQ-4 has been minimized and the Air Force announced that they will continue to be used for reconnaissance U-2, which is more than half a century. The U.S. Army U-2 does not have, so she wants to spy blimp.
KC Brown Jr.., Director of Northrop Grumman on Army programs at a recent conference paris air show 2012 weapons manufacturers for special forces told Wired, that between 6 and 10 June LEMIV make the "first flight". We have already seen how the flying paris air show 2012 airships of this scheme, so the test will surely be successful. And Northrop Grumman is understandable: paris air show 2012 it is in Russian defense minister may order the weapons for a billion or so dollars abroad and in the U.S. public act of this kind will cause the most powerful criticism that will inevitably lead to the closure of the program. That's why the American press and write that Northrop Grumman build an airship for the U.S. Army" (say it is built in Britain, will not quite politically correct). In addition, intelligence equipment on board LEMIV really American - and very similar paris air show 2012 to what is on the RQ-4.
However, we do not care what kind of marketing is making moves U.S. giant to get orders for reconnaissance aircraft. The main thing - that large airships are again trying to regain a place in the sky. Along with intelligence and is considered cargo version of HAV 304, with capacity of up to 7 m Let's hope that this is just the beginning.
Latest news: Completely paris air show 2012 paralyzed patients will be able to "talk" with the help of hearing Nanopoezda running DNA drones spiders weave a complex structure of the cables - at high altitude as zinc "starves" deadly pneumococcus
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