China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) just demonstrated its latest drone swarm tech on state TV, showing a single soldier controlling 200 units.
According to the South China Morning Post, the drones are launched from the Swarm I land vehicle, A.K.A the High Mobility Swarm Weapon System, which can simultaneously launch 48 fixed-wing drones that work together.
Each unit can then autonomously communicate with each other, allowing the entire swarm to fly in precise formation and divide tasks among themselves, like conducting multi-target reconnaissance and strike operations, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said in the report.
That’s neat for like attacking dug in bases or large structures. But I feel like most front lines are held by a much smaller amount of ppl and equipment. Plus in Ukraine I think we’ve seen a return to trench like warfare to hide from drones. Seems like you might be blowing up a lot of nothing to get lucky on the few somethings you actually want to destroy. But hey if you got the money