Let’s go fly a kite: Navy tests revolutionary radar system

The Naval Service has successfully tested a revolutionary new radar system which it is hoping to market globally.

The navy, in cooperation with experts from the National Maritime College’s Halpin Centre and CIT, increased the scope of its systems radar capabilities more than 10-fold by putting sensors on a helium-filled kite which was winched into the air.

The first trials of the new system, known as Project AEOLUS, were carried out by the crew of the Naval Service flagship LÉ Eithne.