2024 Zhuhai Airshow Land Systems
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This Mengshi carries about 20 loitering munitions that can be fired at the same time.
If that were the case, how many operators would be needed to control those 20 munitions? It would seem to be very physically exhausting system if a person is always needed in the loop even with some sort of automation. So what is current command/control for a large number of drones (or loitering munitions) ?
If that were the case, how many operators would be needed to control those 20 munitions? It would seem to be very physically exhausting system if a person is always needed in the loop even with some sort of automation. So what is current command/control for a large number of drones (or loitering munitions) ?
If all the 20 drones are fired at once, they will have to be autonomous either individually or as a smart swarm. With this many drones in flight, to command every one of them in FPV mode would likely saturate the bandwidth even before overwhelming the operators.
Bandwidth for 20 drones in a short radius is probably not a problem. Off the cuff I am thinking of cellular radio example. But I do agree autonomous attack would need to be in place for all 20 drones to be effective. And is that something we are comfortable with? That is, a bomb that goes boom on something, or someone, without a person giving it explicit instruction to do so?
Drag a box on the map, kill everything inside, not hard.
Or, if the enemy is on an island, drag a box around the island.