Military Drones Getting Smarter and Geared For Urban Combat
While companies like Amazon have ambitious plans for advancing drones to deliver packages, it comes as no surprise that the U.S. military has enterprising plans to advance autonomous flying vehicles too. As remote control assassins, the U.S. military has recorded more than 1,000 deaths from long distance remote drone strikes since 2002. Last night the CBS show “60 Minutes reran an episode covering a new autonomous drone swarm named Perdix. The tiny drone swarms are launched from weapon mounts of F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets and behave like swarming insects, communicating with each other to decide how to collectively fulfill their programmed...
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