Washington Post: Watch the Pentagon’s new hive-mind-controlled drone swarm in action
In what will probably be considered a step forward for autonomous military technology, the Pentagon said in a statement Monday that it had successfully demonstrated “one of the world’s largest micro-drone swarms” over China Lake, Calif., in October.
The exercise, put on by Naval Air Systems Command and the Pentagon’s five-year-old Strategic Capabilities Office, involved three F/A-18 multi-role fighters dropping 103 of the tiny remote-controlled aircraft — known as Perdix micro-drones — from specially designed canisters affixed under the aircrafts’ fuselages. The test was first covered by CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday.
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Pentagon successfully tests world's largest micro-drone swarm -- Military Times
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The Pentagon just tested drones that can attack an enemy like a swarm of killer bees -- Business Insider
Video shows fighter jets launch swarm of tiny drones -- FOX News
Pentagon & CBS join forces to unveil ‘drone swarm’ weapon -- RT
Military Drones: Department Of Defense Releases Footage Of Swarm of Mini-Drones -- International Business Times
US military test flooded the sky with a swarm of surveillance drones -- The Next Web
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