DARPA's Smart Blimp: Mysterious, Hovering Future of Battlefield Surveillance

In the future DARPA's ISIS blimp may be hovering above the horizon near to conflict zones, feeding real time radar data to troops and smart weapons from on high. True to its name, it's also a little more magical than the Goodyear blimp as it's almost totally automated.

In fact, the Integrated Sensor Is the Structure has almost nothing in common with the Goodyear aircraft apart from its shape and helium-filling. It's designed to take off from a permanent ground base in the U.S. and fly...