Long-Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle

Nearly four years after botching its attempt to replace its ageing signals intelligence platform, the US Army has regrouped with a new strategy to recapitalise all of its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance ISR aircraft with a mix of five platforms anchored by a new design for a long-endurance, hybrid airship.

The centrepiece of the army's envisaged fleet of imagery and signals intelligence collectors would be a 76.2m (250ft)-long hybrid airship called the long-endurance multi-intelligence vehicle (LEMV). Read more...