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Re:Swarming drones autonomously navigate a dense forest by lm28469 on Thursday May 05, 2022 @08:12AM (#31272332)
This isn't the same problem at all. The weapons we have trouble supplying are huge (howitzer with smart rounds, &c.) and require good roads and rails

You could drop hundreds of autonomous drone by air, make them land somewhere and wait in standby until they get activated or detect a threat.

They scale massively because 1 guy with 100 rifles won't do much more than 1 guy with 1 rifle, 1 guy with 100 trucks won't move faster than 1 guy with 1 truck. 0 guy with 100 drones would potentially kill 100 guys simultaneously for cheap since switchblade style drones are glorified DJIs with a grenade straped at the front

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Re:Swarming drones autonomously navigate a dense forest by RealityVoid on Thursday May 05, 2022 @08:50AM (#31272683)
I admit that control has the _possibility_ to scale well. Supply, on the contrary, it would be much harder to maintain.
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Re:Swarming drones autonomously navigate a dense forest by sangnoir on Thursday May 05, 2022 @12:53PM (#31275735)
That's another point in favor of drones: you can skip field maintenance and do it a the home base and deploy/recover them at time of mission, en masse. Human soldiers has to maintain their equipment in the field/forward base - which is a different set of logistical problems
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