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China reveals 200-strong AI drone swarm that can be controlled by a single soldier
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this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2026
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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?
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.
If the USA invaded Canada; Nato is over, The USA dollar is over and every country ditches it, World goes into a great depression, France places nuclear missiles in Quebec, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and threatens nuclear war, China would probably take the opportunity to invade Taiwan, Russia would use a small nuclear device in Ukraine as he USA becomes isolated.
If the US invaded us, it would be over in a day with a few months spent rounding up lone fighters.
Our citizens are not hiding stock piles of drones and explosives. We aren’t prepared to fight a long protracted battle like Ukraine was.
Canada has a ridiculous number of guns distributed among the population, especially in the back country. Those old Lee-Enfields still work fine and aren't well documented.
An insurgency in Canada would get messy fast. Smuggled drones from the States and China. Improvised explosives from agricultural producers. Canadians can blend into the US easily and the border would become instantly porous to nonexistent.
The biggest challenge the USA would face would be all the sabotage of the oil fields, Niagara Falls generating station, nuclear reactors, power plants, power lines going to the USA. The American army would also be over-extended meaning that China would make a play for both Taiwan and much of the eastern portion of Russian, specifically all of Russia's Pacific coast, right up to Alaska.
think what absolute chaos could be wrought if a terrorist group were to release a swarm like this in a large city
We've seen something like this in the Russian/Ukraine battle. Russia's old equipment couldn't withstand modern shoulder fired rockets. However those are expensive.
Now we have a stalemate, and both sides are using cheaper drones. Overnight, much of the tanks/fighter jets became obsolete because of drones and drone swarms. So now the world (especially Europe/USA) rearm.
Apparently Russia has been using (or still is using?) drones to kill/maim civilians in Kherson. That's what I'm really on about - using drones & drone swarms to target normal people going about their day-to-day lives. It's just really hard to defend against, and is only going to get worse as the tech progresses.
Money will rule with an iron fist.