Been super into drone swarms for a while now. It is truly terrifying at how inadequate current defense is against a swarm... even the greatest military superpowers don’t have very effective options. A weaponized drone swarm is lethal beyond imagining... a well weaponized and well programmed swarm could destroy a US warship.

Some are testing direct energy weapons. Others testing swarm vs swarm. Some EMPs. Some are using physical nets, and other no explosive projectiles. And some are taking the cyber approach.

A decentralized command and control swarm, with fast speed and agility, some bit of AI and consensus ability, image recognition/Machine vision, and machine learning... with fragmentation grenades or lightweight high power explosives... eek.

The more you attack a swarm in a centralized way, the more decentralized it gets and the harder it becomes to defend against or attack it. There is no “head” to chop off.

If you were in a stadium at an event with 100,000 people and a terrorist org chose to attack it with a drone swarm armed with frag grenades... you’d be SCREWED. Even if, and that’s a big IF, the authorities had enough of a heads up, and did their best... they maybe... maybe... could take out half the drones, it would still be utterly catastrophic.

A lot of this information is coming from some friends at DARPA, Naval research institute, SRI, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Stanford.

Something to think about.