LEMV is now in the Cardington hangers, it will be tested for the next 12 months before first flights at the end of next year. (Source) This is not really the optimal situation, but it is better then allowing the blimp to just sit in a hanger forever.
I feel like we as Amaricans missed our opportunity to really innovate here. The Pentagon should have reconfigured LEMV itself, yet politics and MIC got in the way. Now instead of innovating, the government has gone into fire sale mode giving away all our innovations for $0.001 on the dollar.
The United Kingdom will no-doubt lead the way in airship development for the immediate future, something that will undoubtedly pay dividends when the airship revolution really starts to heat up.
