Goodyear ZWG

Goodyear ZWG
Role Airship
National origin United States
Manufacturer Goodyear Aircraft Corporation
Designer Goodyear
Status Cancelled
Primary user United States Navy

The Goodyear ZWG is classified as a ZW Airborne Early Warning Airship. The ZWG-1, designed specifically for the national early warning network mission, was ordered but was subsequently replaced by a much-modified ZPG design as the ZPG-3W.[1]

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Development

In 1947 The ZWG desingation was added in the naming scheme for airships. [2] In 1955 there was increased interest in the use of nonrigid airships as part of the national early warningnetwork. The ZWG-1, designed specifically for this mission, was ordered but was subsequently replaced by a much-modified ZPG design as the ZPG-3W.[3]

Specifications Goodyear ZWG

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N class blimp

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/zpg-3.htm
  2. ^ http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/lta.htm
  3. ^ http://www.history.navy.mil/download/lta-10.pdf

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US tri-service airship designations post-1962

SZ-1/EZ-1 • YEZ-2 • MZ-3
USN non-rigid airship classes

A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • J • K • L • M • N

see also: K-1
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