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Fred J. McCall

wrote:

:Jack Linthicum wrote:
:
: A swarm of UAVs requires a swarm of controllers and a swarm of secure
: frequencies to accomplish that control. I wonder if a follow-on to a
: Shrike or ALARM would bother to hit the transmitting antennas and
: instead have a large enough warhead to take out the whole controlling
: facility.
:A swarm of current generation UAVs requires a swarm of controllers.
:
:A swarm of highly autonomous UAVs (perhaps better viewed as a swarm of
:ultra cheap cruise missiles accompanied by some stealthy UAVs with good
:sensor suites) launched on a 'kill everything that floats and
:resembles a warship'' need not.

You've eliminated controllers by assuming impossible software.

Things don't work like they show them in movies.

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