US Navy develops Locust drones

[Misfit]

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32334186

The US Navy is developing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, that can be launched from a cannon and "swarm" in a co-ordinated attack.

The drones will be able to fly autonomously and "overwhelm an adversary", the US Office of Naval Research said of its Low-cost UAV Swarming Technology (Locust) programme.

Wings unfold once the drones are in the air and then they can fly in formation.

The US Navy plans to demonstrate the launch of 30 Locust drones in 2016.

 

[glhs837]

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32334186

Very cool. Hard to shoot down a small target only emitting for a small amount of time, also relatively easy to paint a persistent picture from distributed sensors, like a phased array, only the elements are independent in space also.

 

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http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32334186

Sounds like something I saw in one of the "Transformers" movies.