Comment by nirav72
1 day 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...
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.
The smaller you make the sensors, often the closer you have to get to the thing being observed.
Cameras, optics, RF circuits, etc.