US tests micro-drone swarms deployed from jets

The micro-drones use collective decision-making to execute missions.

[shinku]

The sound the drones makes themselves are a psychological weapon. The Sky is SCREAMING.

[Zappygunshot]

That sound though, proper terrifying. Even if they had extremely minor weaponry; deployed against human opponents they would wreck morale.

[cbreeze]

Guarantee those drones now have the ability to detonate.

[Canisestlupus]

the video is now much more scary when you know what the drones are

[thezuck]

And this was 6 years ago? You know they have thousands of these now, upgraded and armed with explosives and facial recognition technology.

[WetaMantis]

think cluster bomb but every submunition can fly to it's target and have an amazing hit probability.

[pickleman]

the maneuvers the drones are doing clearly are simulating attacking a target, from every single direction simultaneously no less.
I imagine the automated system could identify a large number of targets and engage them each individually, including infantry. It's quite disturbing to imagine just how effective this would be.

[Stephen-whvl]

Just imagine, plane flys over and drops 250thousand autonomous seeking explosive micro swarming drones

[edmaster]

When they've shown the drones standing in formation digitally, it took me back to when I was 7 years old and I was swarming Terrans with Mutalisks (Zerg) in Starcraft: Brood War, good times!

[fleshdrone]

It reminds me of Protoss' carriers

[Dra]

It does wonders for the morale of the enemy they never heard nothing like this before, it's like a nest of angry Hornets, that can take out armored vehicles and attack you in fortifications it must be a nightmare for them, and we had better build better defenses and we're doing very good when it comes to countering these, one of those things could destroy an entire tank, that's why you have to know how to use your tanks on the battlefield

[kelliintexas]

A guy found one of these on Instagram!! It looked JUST like a bug and beeps LOUD when squeezed.

[emachine]

i mean how much explosives in your standard m64 hand grenade? just add that much onto the drone and when the battery dies, have it ram itself into designated targets set by the people viewing the footage or maybe have them act like cluster bombs where they fly out a certain distance from eachother and drop the explovie payload

[jumpinggoldagatito]

Why this weaponized version are not deploying in Ukraine?

[Joshua-gkxu]

This was 6 years ago now imagine the drones they have now. Scary stuff

[kzrqgc]

Imagine a future EMP handheld weapon with a satellite and a laser on it that only affected what is was used against. 😮😮

[lucan]

every citizen should be protected by EMPs

[danielmarchese]

"Kamikaze drones" The future of warfare.

[Samsquamsh]

WELP. I guess that explains UAP's?

[CallsignYukiMizuki]

inb4 the Chinese copies this

Oh wait