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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.

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I called something like that years ago. Whether the report is true or exaggerated or not it is only a matter of time before this becomes reality. This is a terrifying weapon. You can overwhelm any defender with this.

But what I really dread is when someone finds a way of affordably making these drones capable of autonomously identify and attack targets. Imagine what releasing a swarm of those in a crowded city center with instruction to "wander around and attack any human you identify" would do.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 16 hours ago

Before then, they'll be using facial recognition to identify individual targets.

[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net 2 points 18 hours ago

Given that Sweden has announced developing the same capability, and others likely have forgotten to announce, it's likely true.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That Palantir psycho's image just flashed before me.