Two Silver Airships — Two Different Battles With Physics
Sceye SE2 and Kelluu both made headlines this week. Both silver, both lighter than air. But comparing them is like comparing a moped and a Boeing 747 just because both have engines.
Iurii Vysoven
Small airships for military
A new class of aerial platform is emerging: small, autonomous, lighter-than-air drones. Not the giant rigid airships of the 1930s — purpose-built, technology-dense machines that can stay aloft for hours, carry sensor payloads, and operate silently in environments where conventional drones struggle. Three converging technologies are making
Tethered Drones vs. Small Aerostats: A Technical Comparison
The Rise of Tethered Aerial Platforms Over the past three years, tethered aerial platforms have moved from niche research projects into active military and public safety procurement. The driver is straightforward: free-flying drones are limited by battery life. A multirotor that carries a useful payload — a communications radio, a
Visualising Radio Horizon from an Aerostat
When explaining aerostat-based RF infrastructure to clients, one concept comes up every time: how does radio horizon change with altitude? The physics is straightforward — lift a relay higher and the line-of-sight footprint grows. But showing that relationship in a way that's quick to grasp has
New article on defence-blog
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Aerostats and Persistent Systems for air defence
At Aerobavovna, we recently conducted field tests to evaluate Persistent Systems MPU5 radios deployed on our aerostats — simulating a mobile air defence communication scenario. The goal: maintain stable, high-throughput network connectivity across moving units over large areas. Three aerostats were positioned 30 km apart at 1,000 meters altitude,
A Russian “HAPS” as a Starlink Alternative: What the Claims Miss
Recent Russian media reports describe tests of a stratospheric platform positioned as part of the HAPS (High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite)concept. The platform is claimed to lift up to 100 kg of payload to an altitude of 20 km and carry 5G communication equipment. According to these statements, the system