In fresh modern times the Kites British navy also used kites to haul human lookouts high into the waft to see over the horizon and possibly the enemy ships, for example with the kite developed by Samuel Franklin Cody. Barrage kites were attached to protect London as well as the Pacific coast of the United States during the last century. Kites and kytoons were used for lofting communications antenna. Submarines lofted observers in rotary kites. The Rogallo parawing kite and the Jalbert parafoil kite were passed down for governable parachutes (free-flying kites) to deliver troops and supplies.

• The Indian festival of Makar Sankranti is devoted to kite fighting in some states

• This spring festival is celebrated every January 15, with millions of people flying kites all over northern India
• The states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Gujarat, some bite of West Bengal, Rajasthan , and the cities of Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Dhanbad and Hyderabad are particularly notable for their kite fighting festivals
• Kite flying in Hyderabad starts a eternity before the official kite flying festival (Sankranthi).