Tag: Manned Unmanned Teaming
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Reconnaissance and attack: German Bundeswehr is working on drone swarms
In various projects, the military and the defence industry are investigating the networking of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles. For the Air Force, they could in small numbers support air combat; for the Army, they can detect and destroy nearby targets in large swarms. In various projects, the Army and Air Force are researching the […]
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Big business with throw-away military drones
The defence company Airbus is expected to have produced 2,000 target drones soon, at a unit price in the six-digit range. The Bundeswehr uses them for air defence training. Further missions are testing swarms of drones. To train air defence forces, the military simulates another aerial vehicle or an approaching missile with so-called target drones. […]