Another "optionally piloted" vehicle progresses forward. In my opinion, any airship-based intelligence gatherer will be somewhat of a gamble. It will do a great job of supplementing intelligence from other sources, but it is awfully big and awfully slow. Not only that, if it can see you, then you can see it, and a multitude of recent conflicts have proven that if unfriendlies have any weapons at all, some of them will be MANPAD surface-to-air systems. This guy will need a lot of self-protection systems.
http://blog.al.com/huntsville-times-business/2012/08/armys_giant_unblinking_eye_air.html
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