Kriegsmarine Kleinluftschiffe (Airships)

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Those who tought, like me, that all the German engineering expertise on hardware airships ended with the Hindenburg, are wrong. The BA/MA in Freiburg has a file (included in RM 7/2382), dated 12.2.1938,and stemming from the Kriegsmarine, refering to a proposal, serious enough to the point of assigning airship stations (one in the North Sea coast, two in the Baltic) to accomodate as many as 200 men. The airships were to be made by the Kohler & Stelling firm, in Berlin. It was the brainchild of Colonel (Oberst E) Breithaupt, with specialist consultation by Ing. Richard Basenach, an authority in non-rigid airships. It would be a chubby, steel net reinforced blimp, the military version having 4 to 5000m^3, two 280hp engines, cruise speed 90 km/h, full speed 110 km/h, 7 men crew, armed with MG`s and bombs (depth charges)? Does anyone know about a design drawing?
 
No, there were Lz 127 (Graf Zeppelin) , Lz 128 (not realized), Lz 129 (Hindenburg) and Lz130 (Graf Zeppelin II) as airships all civil airships
 
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No, there were Lz 127 (Graf Zeppelin) , Lz 128 (not realized), Lz 129 (Hindenburg) and Lz130 (Graf Zeppelin II) as airships all civil airships
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That's why I wrote "hardware" airships. I'm aware of the projected airships.
 
Wurger said:
Those who tought, like me, that all the German engineering expertise on hardware airships ended with the Hindenburg, are wrong. The BA/MA in Freiburg has a file (included in RM 7/2382), dated 12.2.1938,and stemming from the Kriegsmarine, refering to a proposal, serious enough to the point of assigning airship stations (one in the North Sea coast, two in the Baltic) to accomodate as many as 200 men. The airships were to be made by the Kohler & Stelling firm, in Berlin. It was the brainchild of Colonel (Oberst E) Breithaupt, with specialist consultation by Ing. Richard Basenach, an authority in non-rigid airships. It would be a chubby, steel net reinforced blimp, the military version having 4 to 5000m^3, two 280hp engines, cruise speed 90 km/h, full speed 110 km/h, 7 men crew, armed with MG`s and bombs (depth charges)? Does anyone know about a design drawing?
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Are you sure about date? Seems be charatestics of Airships of wwI.
 
Well, they'd bave to start somewhere. The description sonds vaguely like anti submarine blimps of the USN. They weren't cutting edge technology either.
 

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