> What? Swarming missiles? Where do people get these stupid ideas? https://www.defensenews.com/air/2021/02/04/air-forces-golden-horde-swarming-munitions-progra

> What? Swarming missiles? Where do people get these stupid ideas? https://www.defensenews.com/air/2021/02/04/air-forces-golden-horde-swarming-munitions-program-to-get-a-second-chance-this-month/ https://www.defensenews.com/air/2021/02/04/air-forces-golden... > You don't get a swarm just because you deploy multiple missiles at the same time. A missile swarm knows that Missile #5, and #10 were shot down, and that missile #5's target was more important than Missile #1's target. A "saturation attack" won't have this effect. Simple intelligence, not even "AI level", but some basic communications between missiles, can lead to better mission success. A "saturation attack" means hitting an area with maybe 30 missiles and hoping all the targets get blown up. A missile swarm on the other hand, has those 30 missiles communicate, prioritizes, and focuses upon target locations as they get intercepted, all automatically. If 25 missiles get shot down, the remaining 5 missiles still hit the top 5 most important targets. If 15 missiles get shot down, the 15 missiles spread out and hit lower priority targets (rather than redundantly making the craters bigger). ------- A "Swarm" is just an incremental upgrade to the already well performing "saturation attack" strategy. But we have enough communication systems that coordination and prioritization should be in our next-generation missile systems. This isn't a revolution, its just a natural evolution to the age-old saturation strategy. Put simple dumb computers to make the strategy even better in the future.