“Proliferation of basic swarming technology is inevitable,” warns Kallenborn. Last year China showed off a truck-mounted ‘ barrage swarm launcher’ capable of putting 48 attack drones into the air, and the Turkish military took delivery of 500 Kargu kamikaze drones claimed to have swarming capability. India is not the only country pursuing attack swarms. This project was fast-tracked last year in response to China’s deployment for surface-to-air missiles across the Ladakh border. A Jaguar strike aircraft will carry four pods each containing each of the Air-Launched Flexible Asset (Swarm) or ALFA-S drones, which are capable of attacking air defenses. India is also developing drone swarms that can be deployed from fast jets. In addition to reconnaissance and attack, Indian drone swarms will also be able to carry out resupply missions, with a 75-drone swarm delivering over 1,200 pounds of supplies to troops in the battle zone. to develop swarming drones since 2018 under the Defence Technology Trade Initiative, although few details have been released.Īccording to the commentary, the drone swarm is capable of attacking targets from a range of 50 kilometers. India has been collaborating with the U.S. ”The challenge with drone swarms comes from how the drones communicate and coordinate their actions, which is primarily a programming problem.” “The most critical aspect is academic: how do you design algorithms to manage the increasing complexity of the swarm? In terms of both more drones and different types of drone,” says Kallenborn. This has developed rapidly recently and is proliferating IAI now offer a drone swarm package for commercial users allowing multiple drones to be controlled from a smartphone app.
While new technologies and in particular AI and edge computing will drive drone swarms, the key element is the swarming software. Notably, the targets used in the demonstration were all stationary.” What's not clear is how well the system would function in actual combat environment where the drones will need to adapt to rapid changes, a complex environment, and mobile targets. “The announcer notes in the beginning the drones are programmed to carry out these attacks.
“The question in my mind is how sophisticated the autonomous capabilities are,” says Kallenborn.
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