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Agreed, the only disaster situations I can think of where an airship might have use are earthquake and war zones, which are often hard to reach by vehicle or pl
by whoisthemachine 3y ago
Agreed, the only disaster situations I can think of where an airship might have use are earthquake and war zones, which are often hard to reach by vehicle or plane, and may have calm enough weather to support an airship.
- rtkwe 3y agoThey'd be great at secondary recovery once they get into place but they're so slow you can't use them for the immediate recovery and life saving efforts unless they're immediately in the area.
- whoisthemachine 3y agoYeah basically only useful as cargo lift and maybe as mobile medical facilities.
- rtkwe 3y agoThey could maybe act like mini versions of the hospital ships run by the US and others for inland areas beyond the reach of ship based care. Still kind of runs into the response speed issue. In the time it takes a blimp to trundle over from wherever it's stored helicopters can deploy a lot of materiel.
- mschuster91 3y agoA Zeppelin NT can reach up to 125 km/h, that's way faster than any truck can possibly reach in a disaster zone. The only thing faster and as versatile is a select breed of cargo choppers like the Mi-26 (Russia) and the CH-53K (US), but flying choppers comes with risks on its own from rotor downwash. [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin_NT https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin_NT
- rtkwe 3y agoThey're faster but they can't lift much at all. Their payload is only 1,900 kg while a CH-53K can lift a bit over 16,000 kg.