Re: Mini Attack Swarms

From: Abrigon Gusiq (abrigon_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:40:46 -0900
To: sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org

Sadly, the reverse is possible as well. Guerillas using small RPVs to
attack their enemies.

Mike
Terminator? Or just ..

Warren Okuma wrote:
>
> "sanman" <manofsan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:f144e162.0406091111.59fb2fb5@posting.google.com...
> > Guerrillas like to take comfort in their smaller mobile size to wage
> > hit-and-run war against larger standing armies. But what if you could
> > come up with something smaller and more mobile than the guerrilla?
> >
> > What if you could have a swarm of mini-drones that could quickly
> > assemble and attack human-sized guerrilla targets? Just like a flock
> > of birds or bats, or swarm of hornets or bees. The mini-drones could
> > be equipped for poison, or electric shock, or even ultrasonic attack.
> >
> > Guerrillas may be too small and mobile for tanks or even humvees to
> > catch, but a swarm of small-sized drones would be even smaller and
> > more mobile than the guerrillas themselves, and the guerrillas would
> > not have enough armor to stop them.
> >
> > Regarding ultrasonics, I would wonder if a swarm of mini-drones
> > equipped with ultrasonic emitters & recievers might be able to serve a
> > reconnaissance and mapping function.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> You might see something like that in 15-30 years. We are alrady seeing very
> small RPV's, and to put weapons on them would be the next logical step. The
> swarm would communicate probably with several ways frequency hopping IR
> etc... and would probably be a form of distributed intellegence. Once
> scientists map out the mind of a wasp ("software" and "hardware") we have
> the basic attack program, then we refine it.

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