Monday, August 03, 2015
Swarm cloud of drones, missiles and mothership airplanes
The project is still in its conceptual phase. The agency wants to begin experiments in 2017 and scale it up to testing “integrated air-air and precision strike kill chains” in 2019.
“It can take decades and cost billions of dollars to field or upgrade advanced airborne systems today,” said Nils Sandell, director of DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office (STO).
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Military future seems more as likely as advanced video games.