Vladimir Putin is ready to equip the Russian army with a spaceship-like aircraft that merges technologies from planes, hovercraft and airships. The $15m 130-metre-long blimp-like Atlant vehicle can take off and land without a runway and will be able to carry 200 people or 60 tonnes of cargo at speeds of up to 105mph. It’s not dissimilar to Airlander’s “flying bum” airship, which is being tested in the UK. The high-tech airship is being built by Augur RosAeroSystems and will be ready as soon as 2018
We also came up with the decision to make the airship harder by using special balancing system (SAB). It also has a hard shell. Not a frame faced by cloth, but a composite body. It is an innovative solution and this system is unique, nowhere abroad do they have that. Computer images of the Atlant show its main cabin resembles that of an airship, with an overly large cockpit window and two small wings fixed to the rear of the fuselage. The Aircraft is the combination of an airship, plane, helicopter and hovercraft" but give no further details on how this hybrid will be created.
The First Aircraft was established in 1991 Augur Ros Aero Systems is a leading manufacturer of airships and two years ago unveiled the AU-30, which was capable to carrying a payload of half-a-tonne. The airship industry is slowing making a comeback, almost seven decades after the German Hindenburg disaster that left 35 people dead. It is estimated there are about 50 of them in existence around the world, in use by private firms as well as the military.
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