• nucleative@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    We’ve all see those drone swarms that are used with lights to create cool designs in the sky at outdoor shows.

    Knowing these cheap drones can all be centrally controlled like this to act as a “unified” entity makes me imagine how effective it would be to attack an enemy position from every direction at once with many kamikaze units. Back them up with roving AI movement detection units in an outer orbit followed by human controlled FPV units and damn… It would be tough to evade an attack.

    Scary

    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, that’s another level, and it would be exponentially more expensive, but that’s what arms races do. The benefit to these hobby-level drone bombs is that they are cheap.

      That said there were already two drones here, one attack drone and one observer, so it’s possible they couldn’t easily identify which was the attacker. Add three or four just manually piloted and you make it much harder to defend against, even without special swarming tech. In the end you only need one of them to go off, the others could fly back home and be reused.