China reveals 200-strong AI drone swarm that can be controlled by a single soldier — ‘intelligent algorithm’ allows individual units to cooperate autonomously even after losing communication with operator
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The PLA just introduced a new weapon in the drone arms race.

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.

  • bookmeat@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Man, this would be amusing to see when they all get jammed at the same time.

    The cutting edge of warfare is Ukraine, not China, btw.

  • thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    It’s crazy how fast this new war tech is moving.

    Conflicts around the world are going to move to drones, not just Russian/Ukraine.

    Whoever can build millions of these, yearly, and cheaply will have a significant advantage. Will be able to sell them to other conflict zones

    An AK-47 is only piratical to 100meters. It was cheap machines guns that rolled back colonial empires like the British, and French, in places like Africa.

    I can only wonder what cheap drone tech will do to change world politics?

    • skozzii@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 month ago

      As a Canadian it gives me relief, if the USA ever decided to invade Canada it would be absolutely brutal for both of us, not just one sided atleast. The fight would be happening back at home like they would never have expected, and would last until the occupation ends.

      I can’t believe I actually wrote those words in a reality where it could happen… Trump is destroying the world.

  • AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Not that I think drone swarms are particularly far-fetched in the realm of unmanned systems, but haven’t we learned by now to not just automatically believe whatever military tech China “announces” on state television?

    Since at least 2024, China has been publicly trying to crack down on rampant corruption in its weapons procurement and R+D sectors, a lot of it connected to vaporware fake military tech.