Ships To See Farther With Darpa’s Talons Capability

Open-water testing of a low-cost automated parafoil has shown the system can extend a ship’s horizon by lifting surveillance sensors or communications payloads to altitudes many-times higher than the vessel’s mast. Darpa’s Towed Airborne Lift of Naval Systems (Talons) program harks back decades: to...

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