This isn’t your granddaddy’s Hindenburg…

…but it is a giant airship. The U.S. Defense Department has handed more than $6 million to Lockheed Martin and Aeros Aeronautical Group to start designing a small version of what they eventually hope will be a giant blimp that can hal 1,800 soldiers and their gear 12,000 nautical miles in less than a week.

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