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Right now one of the limits is just controlling that many let along sourcing it. Putting that many actively controlled drones in one area at once and you'll swa
by rtkwe 7mo ago
Right now one of the limits is just controlling that many let along sourcing it. Putting that many actively controlled drones in one area at once and you'll swamp the bandwidth.
- packetlost 7mo agoThe drones in Ukraine largely use miles-long spools of fiber optic cable, so while I agree that sourcing is a problem, bandwidth likely isn't. If you want to be creative there's probably a bunch of hybrid wireless/wired/semi-autonomous configurations that would allow for minimizing bandwidth requirements in practice, but it would still fall apart as soon as a reasonably powerful jammer is turned on.
- rtkwe 7mo agoFeels like a massed attack using fiber optics would have lots of problems with drones getting tangled in the cables of those in front of/above them or cutting the cable. The trouble with making them autonomous in a city is that means more sensors and compute on board which raises the cost. It's a hard problem.
- freediddy 7mo agoThey would just be autonomous. Setting a GPS (or alternate system) coordinate is pretty simple enough. Individual targets could just be AI controlled at this point, or 10 years in the future.
- rtkwe 7mo agoGPSing your way through a city to targets is a big ask.