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Given the positive results of commercial drones in Ukraine over the last 8 months, I've been wondering about when this kind of tech is going to converge with th
by geuis 4y ago
Given the positive results of commercial drones in Ukraine over the last 8 months, I've been wondering about when this kind of tech is going to converge with the war.
If you can equip 20+ drones with grenades, controlled by a single operator, and mass a formation on an entrenched Russian position, what can be the results?
It's trivial today to equip commercial drones with individual human tracking. Or identify groups of a few hiding in a bunker or a hole. Sky really is the limit.
Imagine a military level version of a drone swarm targeting a major encampment or forward position. Combine a combo of arms from grenades to small missiles with the ability to identify unique targets of interest.
An average HIMARS missile costs about $100k. You could get dozens of highly capable commercial drones for that price. Imagine a swarm of hundreds of military drones carrying "small arms" but able to individually target enemy positions on a dynamic real-time basis.
It's honestly kind of scary and awe inspiring about how effective such relatively low cost mass deployment systems could be.
- djohnston 4y agoThe US has been developing drone swarms since the 2010s at least, I assume other first-class militaries are roughly at the same capability or perhaps better. So, it has existed for awhile but I don't think the swarms have been employed.