However, an equally compelling yet often overlooked alternative exists: unmanned blimps. While both have their unique strengths, I believe unmanned blimps offer several advantages over traditional ...

Essentially an unmanned drone, the blimp transmitted detailed images to the race's security officers and to Indiana police. "The airship is great because it doesn't have that Big Brother feel ...

The U.S. military has two giant, unmanned surveillance blimps it uses to watch the East Coast from a base in Maryland. And one of them escaped its tethers Wednesday and floated aimlessly over ...

At the U.S. Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, soldiers practiced the complicated choreography of launching an unmanned blimp nearly as long as a football field. "Every time I see it take ...

OGDEN, Utah (CBS/AP) Police in Utah are considering using an unmanned blimp with night-vision capabilities as a crime fighting eye-in-the-sky. The Standard-Examiner of Ogden reports the Utah ...

It is comprehensive, to say the least, employing an unmanned blimp, long range camera equipment, a “quick response investigative ground team”—even passive tracking devices. “You know ...

After a multi-year hiatus from the commercial drone business, the principals at Galaxy Unmanned Systems L.L.C. (formerly Galaxy Blimps) are ready to incorporate lessons learned from supporting the U.S ...

An unmanned blimp that had been floating loose over Maryland and Pennsylvania for over four hours has landed and is secure, the Pennsylvania State Police said Wednesday afternoon. The blimp ...

The first model is unmanned, making it a plane blimp drone, built within FAA limits. Because half of the weight of the vehicle is offset by the helium envelope (the big, blimp-like pouch on the ...

For the past 70 years, the Goodyear blimp has been as ubiquitous in the sports world as the national anthem. The tiremaker’s ...