The Pentagon is already testing tomorrow’s AI-powered swarm drones, ships

Published on January 23, 2024

Sailors and civilian mariners launch a Wave Glider Unmanned Surface Vehicle from the fantail of USNS Burlington as a part of the UNITAS U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet Unmanned Integration Campaign.

DOD pulled off unmanned amphibious landings, self-coding drones, and more just in the last year. What's next?

Autonomous weapons are coming. Recent Pentagon breakthroughs in experimental aerial and naval craft are paving the way for low-cost attack drones and new tactics that feature AI in key roles. Navy and Air Force experiments also highlighted how the U.S. military might employ autonomous weapons differently than China or Russia. 

The Navy, for example, brought swarms of air and sea drones to the annual Unitas exercise, where they collected and shared reconnaissance data that helped the multinational fleet detect, identify, and take out enemy craft more quickly.

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