Talon, a new drone recovery system manufactured by Target Arm LLC. The Talon was officially introduced at the Maneuver Center of Excellence (MCoE) at Fort Benning, Georgia.
It uses a Venus Flytrap-like capture system on the back of a moving vehicle through which either a fixed-wing or rotary-wing drone can fly and be caught.
This gives troops a handy way to bring back valuable small drones, or drones of any size, really.
Don Sando, deputy to the MCoE commanding general, called it a “simple but elegant” solution to a problem units face when bringing back drone assets.
A key feature of the next fight, many Army officials have highlighted, is the ability for small, dispersed units to stay mobile so that they’re not tracked, sensed and targeted by enemy forces. And having a mobile retrieval system helps with that task.
Work at the Maneuver Center of Excellence is ongoing, as it launched its robotics program and added to training for maneuver elements in the Army by incorporating robots at many levels.
Source: Army Times
How would the subject sUAS be directed or otherwise caused to be at the appropriate altitude, speed, and vector for capture?