Washington Post: Watch the Pentagon’s new hive-mind-controlled drone swarm in action
In what will probably be considered a step forward for autonomous military technology, the Pentagon said in a statement Monday that it had successfully demonstrated “one of the world’s largest micro-drone swarms” over China Lake, Calif., in October.
The exercise, put on by Naval Air Systems Command and the Pentagon’s five-year-old Strategic Capabilities Office, involved three F/A-18 multi-role fighters dropping 103 of the tiny remote-controlled aircraft — known as Perdix micro-drones — from specially designed canisters affixed under the aircrafts’ fuselages. The test was first covered by CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday.
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2 comments:
How much does a swarm cost vs. one F35? Which would win in a battle. I'm guessing the swarm is dirt cheap and would defeat the F35. We have met an important tech point in planes again. Cheap swarm and remotely piloted vehicles vs. reluctant to use because they're piloted jet fighters.
I would have thought some sort of air burst shrapnel ordnance would disrupt the swarm.
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