Military Links Drones into Unmanned Squadrons
Armies of robotic drones may be just around the corner. Taking a cue from The Terminator films, the U.S. Navy is developing unmanned fighting vehicles that network together and operate in “swarms.”
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Posted by JR
On November 3rd, 2009 under Military.
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Comment from virgil xenophon
Time: November 10, 2009, 12:27 pm
JR/
This is EXACTLY the right path! ONLY way to make them cost effective against dense, high attrition defenses. Also, btw, has additional advantage of making them relatively immune to SAM attack, as most radars won’t be able to lock on any one individual
platform in a “Swarm.” They will all have to be shot down individually either by aircraft or ground-fire–a heavy resource and time wasting enterprise.
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