Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node (TERN), a joint program between DARPA and the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR), seeks to greatly increase the effectiveness of forward-deployed small-deck ships such as destroyers and frigates by enabling them to serve as mobile launch and recovery sites for specially designed unmanned aerial ...

Tern seeks to enable on-demand, ship-based unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operations without extensive, time-consuming, and irreversible ship modifications. It would provide small ships with a “mission truck” that could transport ISR and strike payloads long distances from the host vessel.

Feb 6, 2017 · The objective of the DAPRA TERN program is to design, develop, and demonstrate a medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) and related technologies to enable future launch, recovery, and operations from a …

Dec 5, 2016 · DARPA's goal to develop a UAV that can launch from small-deck ships in the US Navy and Marine Corps fleets, for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, as well as targeting and strike...

Tern Robotics manufactures long range unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for operation in extreme environments such as the Canadian Artic. Our Tern ER1 UAV features a range in excess of 500km with VTOL capability and an advanced sensor suite capable of very low temperature (-45C) operation supported by global satellite connectivity.

Dec 30, 2015 · The Coast Guard has long sought a VTOL unmanned aircraft, TERN could finally be an answer to their dreams. It could bring C-130 like speeds and helicopter deployability to search and rescue...

Nov 27, 2019 · Tern seeks to enable on-demand, ship-based unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operations without extensive, time-consuming, and irreversible ship modifications. It would provide small...

Nov 9, 2016 · DARPA is ready to move to a full scale demonstrator of TERN, a technology that will allow UAVs to take off and land from confined spaces in rough seas to achieve efficient long-duration flight. With phase 3 now awarded to a team from Northrop Grumman, Claire Apthorp caught up with the programme to find out what it could offer.

Nov 1, 2017 · The Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node, aka Tern, is an unmanned aerial system (UAS) that can launch and land vertically. Photo illustration by DARPA Tern’s defining characteristic is its ability to land and take off vertically, like …

Jul 19, 2016 · Unmanned aircraft designers at Northrop Grumman Corp. are developing a second prototype unmanned air vehicle (UAV) and shipboard launch and recovery system to enable the UAV to fly from...