The US military has invested billions in blimp-like aircraft to track militants planting roadside bombs but the spy ship experiment is losing altitude because of technical failures and changing priorities.
The lighter-than-air projects were billed as an innovative revival of an old aircraft design to conduct "unblinking" surveillance on the battlefield -- at a fraction of the cost of fuel-guzzling planes or helicopters.
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