January 28, 2021
Can U.S. Military Kill a Drone Swarm in Battle?
The Army is looking for ways to use AI to quickly identify and take out drone swarms.
by Kris Osborn
The threat of drone swarms presents a serious problem for the U.S. military. The Pentagon will need to enterprise new methods of destroying them to protect forward operating bases, ground forces on the move or even air assets such as larger drones, fixed wing aircraft or helicopters.
The Army and its industry partners have been focusing closely on counter drone operations, in large measure because drone swarms present defenders with a host of complexities, including simple redundancy. Should an entire swarm of interconnected mini-drone explosives be approaching, how might hundreds of them be stopped, destroyed or rendered inoperable? Should several small drones be disabled by defenses, what about the remaining ones? How can large numbers of them be taken out at one time, all while an attack is underway and commanders have little time with which to respond.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/can-us-military-kill-drone-swarm-battle-177222
