US Airforce spends 140 million to kick rocks.

The US Airforce has just cancelled Blue Devil Block 2. I know I said I didn't care for it but, can I really say I'm happy about this? What's the possibility that LEMV gets cancelled as well thanks to budget cuts and delays? And why didn't the Pentagon get it's act together to not wast 140 million on a project that offers no new benefits over conventional airship technology in the first place? Did they not even look at our past history with airship technology to know that conventional airships are plagued with problems?

The Hybrid Airship design is the future for all airship technology. That's just simple logic. Without some system of ballast control, conventional airships just don't work. They are hard to control, they can't hover, they're giant wind sails, and worst of all they have a chance to lose ballast control and fall out of the sky like the Macron or the Akron, or they can just go flying up into the sky until their balloons pop and then they come crashing down. Hybrids solve all these problems by using the shape of the hull like an airplane to maintain ballast control, which is what gives hybrids the edge they need to bring airship technology to the next level and become a powerhouse of economic growth and market stability. 

The Navy knows all about the intrinsic difficulties with airships from experience, but perhaps that is the problem; branches of the military not sharing information as they should. The Airforce has little experience with airships, so perhaps they where looking to outshine the Navy with the largest blimp they could make. The idea that they, of course, would somehow overcome all the problems that the navy could not solve. Why? Because they are better then the Navy, in their minds. So why would they ask the Navy for help?

This lack of ability for the American military branches to work with each other is a long standing problem in the US, and very well could be the death of this nation if we don't somehow fix it. Why can't we all just get past our own egos and work together? This ego-centric-mindedness is the real killer of this Nation, as much like in public school the military is filed with the ideology that one must be better then someone else when they are right, and to be wrong is to commit the "sin" of stupidity. Yet in the end, the Airforce ends up looking the bigger fool which is regrettable because it was probably just the arrogance of one or two bullheaded generals that screwed this whole thing up in the end, and now the entire Airforce must take the blame for it.

Hopefully we will learn from this. It's time for airship technology to reach new heights, and that path is clearly laid out in the Hybrid Airship design, not in the old ways of the old world. We must work together to survive and we must work together to thrive. If we keep on trying to be better then everyone else, without realizing that we all have different skill sets and we are all individuals, we aren't gonna make it. Respect and peace is the answer.