Chinese UAV/UCAV development

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tankphobia

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True, but the drone swarm itself might actually look quite messy without the trajectory lines, and they could be much further apart than what the UI is showing, so it might be very hard to capture the whole picture.

Impressive control logic nevertheless, I wonder if it's some sort of decentralized planning built within the swarm instead of having everything controlled via a ground station.
This tech doesn't seem particularly difficult to achieve, the US demo'd something similar from ~5 years ago in an air dropable format:

So we really have no reason to doubt that China can do the same thing. It most likely uses decentralized path planning with inter-drone communication using radio to share telemetry and avoiding collision.

With the way it's going a large format MLRS can deliver hundreds of even thousands of smart UAV munitions at a time, with autonomous targetting and strike capabilities defense against such tactics will be very difficult.
 

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A brochure on various target drones from Zhuhai Air Show.

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tankphobia

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They can be charged by another drone from above. Other than energy delivery, it is also another way of communication that is free of EW
Aren't you literally blasting the drone with a beam of energy? It will be magnitudes higher power than communication since it needs to transmit power, any leakage will be easily picked up.
 
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