Militaries all over the world are moving ahead with swarming attack drones. But what actually is a drone swarm and what makes it so effective?
Recent weeks have seen a slew of new swarm announcements, including the French Icarus project, the Russian Lightning, the Spanish RAPAZ, the U.K.’s Blue Bear swarm and the UAE/South African N-Raven, as well as a drone swarm on show hitting targets at India’s Army Day. Last week Armenia, which suffered heavy casualties from Azeri drones in the recent conflict, announced its own new swarming attack drone. Proliferation is well under way even before swarms have been used in action.
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WNU Editor: The above drone swarm attack clip from the movie "Angel Has Fallen" illustrates very clearly on why every military in the world wants to have drone swarms in their arsenal.
The interesting bit will be to find the right balance of swarm numbers, swarm unit size, and their own autonomous engagement systems.. the variance is really hard to predict and counter plan for
ReplyDeleteObviously the US will look at a number of defence measures, from strong lasers that can engage with dozen or hundreds of targets in a minute, to electronic jamming to other kinetic and non kinetic systems
But on the laser front what's interesting is the loss of laser effectiveness in less than clear air environments... and I don't mean cloudy...
So I wonder if primers will be used to make drone swarms more efficient/ harden them against lasers... just how.. the goal is to render the lasers less effective by manipulating either the air(and/ or the laser system.. but let's stick with the air for now)
Maybe the primer drone will carry fine particles and is encapsulated in a mirror :D
Or the primer drone, when shot, actually explodes on purpose and releases the laser effectiveness reducing particles (lerp) wherever they're over a defense worthy target with lasers.. could even act as homing device/ primer for the drones..