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Started by Darman, February 06, 2013, 07:19:35 PM

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Darman

This a quote from the rules:
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Dirigible Airships

Dated: None
1898: Volume 10 000m³ nonrigid airships, 30kts
1905: Type 1 Volume: 20 000m³ and 4 tons military payload over 700 nm speed 40 kts

Do we have any prices for airships?  Airfields? 

Tanthalas

UHM good question... one I should have the answer to but I must admit I do not.

Quote from: Darman on February 06, 2013, 07:19:35 PM
This a quote from the rules:
Quote
Dirigible Airships

Dated: None
1898: Volume 10 000m³ nonrigid airships, 30kts
1905: Type 1 Volume: 20 000m³ and 4 tons military payload over 700 nm speed 40 kts

Do we have any prices for airships?  Airfields?
"He either fears his fate too much,
Or his desserts are small,
Who dares not put it to the touch,
To win or lose it all!"

James Graham, 5th Earl of Montrose
1612 to 1650
Royalist General during the English Civil War

Darman

I realize that submarine upkeep costs are more important.  However I was thinking forward in an attempt to plan when to begin researching certain technologies and realized we already had that particular technology.  Now I have no idea if those early airships would be of any use to a military at all, my guess is no, but they could easily be experimental. 

KWorld

They'd be of limited use, I'd think mostly of value as artillery observation posts (like the tethered balloons of the US Civil War and WWI).  Taking them to sea, with their limited speed, is probably not wise (if a wind comes up off the land of more than 30 knots, you've got a serious problem.....)

Darman

Yea I figured as much.  I was just thinking that sometime I'd like to acquire one for experimental purposes.