Heavy-Lift Blimp

Heavy Lift Blimp

IThese would be so cool to see floating into a military opperation. I wonder if they can take a direct hit with an anti tank weapon.

The Walrus operational vehicle (OV) is intended to carry a payload of 500-1,000 tons (that’s 1-2 million pounds) up to 12,000 nautical miles, in less than seven days and at a competitive cost. Given these enormous capacities, they would mostly be used to deploy full-scale fighting units (for example, the components of an Future Combat Systems Army Unit of Action) quickly, getting them to their site with a minimum of equipment reassembly work required. The ideal is that transported forces should fully ready to fight within six hours.

Walrus Heavy-Lift Blimp Getting off the Ground