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by nirav72 321 days ago
>You also need more solar and more batteries to power all that ISR.

I wonder if it would be feasible to use smaller sensors and on a smaller platform - then combine that data. Similar in concept to Gorgon stare where the idea was to combine data from multiple UAVs to create a larger image to provide a greater simultaneous coverage area.

https://longreads.com/2019/06/21/nothing-kept-me-up-at-night...
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runjake 321 days ago
Mesh is the fad in the military right now, so I imagine this was designed with that in mind. On the other hand, the military likes its sensor data, so it's always going to go big.

I worked on non-maritime stuff, so I'm not familiar with maritime-specific sensors.

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esseph 321 days ago
The smaller you make the sensors, often the closer you have to get to the thing being observed.

Cameras, optics, RF circuits, etc.

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