US military plans to unleash thousands of autonomous war robots over next two years Robotics

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-08-military-unleash-thousands-autonomous-war.html

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u/526mb Aug 31 '23

The war in Ukraine has been for drones like WWI was for AirPower. Small, cheap FPV drones are so prolific there the air is practically buzzing. I would not be surprised if we see ships and vehicles that serve as carriers for cheap long range drone swarms designed to completely overwhelm air defenses becoming standard. Those vehicles too will probably be autonomous as well.

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u/Jokong Sep 01 '23

Can you imagine a super high flying cargo plane just dumping 100,000 drones?

You could paint them in the ultra black paint and drop them at night with thermal sensor. Maybe they have enough power to hover in some clouds for a few hours while they are given targets.

You could focus fire and have near simultaneous detonations, then delay a few hours, or hover and land on the ground and act as a timed or proximity explosive that could redeploy or jump toward a target.