A 100-Drone Swarm, Dropped from Jets, Plans Its Own Moves

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Here's some seriously cool tech - straight from a sci-fi shit I read.

A 100-Drone Swarm, Dropped from Jets, Plans Its Own Moves
Once launched, the swarm can decide for itself how best to execute a mission.

by Jamie Condliffe January 10, 2017



What’s small, fast, and is launched from the bottom of a fighter jet? Not missiles, but a swarm of drones.

U.S. military officials have announced that they’ve carried out their largest ever test of a drone swarm released from fighter jets in flight. In the trials, three F/A-18 Super Hornets released 103 Perdix drones, which then communicated with each other and went about performing a series of formation flying exercises that mimic a surveillance mission.

>>Full article - Technology review

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DOD News release:

Department of Defense Announces Successful Micro-Drone Demonstration

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Re...-demonstration

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[seanjo]

What do they do...are they surveillance kit or weapons...or both...?

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Originally Posted by seanjo

What do they do...are they surveillance kit or weapons...or both...?

I understand surveillance for now -but since they are not intended to be recovered why not attach some C-4 to each drone? Boom, boom, boom x 100... or thousand?

[DontTreadOnMe2]

Skynet - we just have to wait for them to become self aware.....

Then - we are fucked