Chinese Swarm Drone Systems: 48 and 96 Drones
Some time ago, I wrote about the evolution of autonomous systems and how only the Chinese were truly making progress in this field.
After starting serial production of the Swarm-2, which features 48 drones and real-time tracking, they are now testing a version with 96 drones.
These are divided into three categories: reconnaissance, jamming, and attack. Each drone can carry a variety of payloads, including electro-optical reconnaissance, strike munitions, and relay communications.
They can be flexibly combined into different operational groupings, forming multifunctional swarms capable of complex missions.
These drones have an individual range of 15 to 50 km, but the manufacturer claims that by maintaining a swarm network communication, this range is significantly extended.
This strongly reinforces what we discussed a while back: that future wars will be dominated by drone systems that will severely delay any ground troop advancement, as already evidenced by the conflict in Ukraine.