According to a report, the U.S. Navy is trying to make the drones seen in Call of Duty and Angel has Fallen a reality. According to budget documents reviewed by the MIT Technology Review, these drones could be used to overwhelm air defense or nose dive from the sky. The project is called Super Swarm.
According to the documents, the swarms could launch from a variety of platforms, such as submarines or aircraft, and could include a variety of different types of weaponry.
DEALRS attempts to solve current drones' finicky range issues by creating a larger so-called "mothership" that can carry and launch multiple drones. MASS wants to use 3D printing to make a lot of cheap drones. Some of the military's more advanced small drones can cost upwards of $200,000 per unit, so driving down costs will be a crucial role in any future drones swarms.
When deployed in actual combat scenarios, the Navy's drones swarms could potentially act as a first form of attack capable of breaching through thick defenses. Even if a lot of the drones are shot down, they can still throw a wrench in the enemy's defense.
The Navy did not respond right away.
While not exactly the modern advanced sci-fi vision of drone swarms movie buffs may have in their head, organized groups or cooperative drones have played a decisive role in recent conflicts. At the beginning of the war, Ukrainian officials called on Kyiv hobby drone owners to use their drones for military purposes. The Ukrainian military received batches of Phoenix Ghost drones from the U.S. in the months after the war began. Combat is what tactical operations mean.
It can be used to give you a site picture of what it's seeing, like almost all drones. John Kirby was the Pentagon press secretary. Its main focus is attack. At least four targets, including a residential building and a train station, were thrown into the air by Shahed-136 so-called "suicide drones" built by Iran.
According to the documents uncovered by the MIT Technology Review, the U.S. military has been thinking about how to use drones for tactical purposes for a long time. The defense department's gonzo research and development team has spent a long time trying to crack the drone swarm code.
A top official told FedScoop that the US military could potentially deploy the tech within five years. The agency is investing in new ways to charge drones. Researchers are testing out flocks of autonomously air and ground drones at a training facility.
A future army of buzzing drones could use augmented and virtual reality, along with voice and touch gestures, to provide a human controller with a common interface that grants them, "immersive."
China, Russia, and Israel are all competing to close the technology gap with the U.S. Israel became the first military to use a swarm of drones in combat last year after it deployed a number of drones during the Gaza conflict. According to Defense One, the drones fed back information that was used to conduct a number of missile strikes.
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