{"id":17640,"date":"2018-01-08T21:34:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T21:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/01\/08\/drone-swarm-tactics-get-tryout-for-infantry-to-use-in-urban-battlespace\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:53:12","slug":"drone-swarm-tactics-get-tryout-for-infantry-to-use-in-urban-battlespace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/2018\/01\/08\/drone-swarm-tactics-get-tryout-for-infantry-to-use-in-urban-battlespace\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone swarm tactics get tryout for infantry to use in urban battlespace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-smg-jwplayer-video\"><atype-video-jwplayer nostick=\"true\" playlisturl=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/v2\/playlists\/fCzRqMW8?tags=950d1075-25b0-43a3-b4df-6ce9bf20216e\" poster=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/video-poster-950d1075-25b0-43a3-b4df-6ce9bf20216e.jpg\" aspectratio=\"16 \/ 9\" mute autostart=\"false\"><\/atype-video-jwplayer><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Department of Defense successfully tested a drone swarm in 2016. Officials want to put drone swarms in the hands of light infantry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The science fiction-sounding goal: Put an autonomous robot swarm of 250 or more drones under the control of light infantry soldiers or Marines to do complex tasks on the urban battlefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Competitors are now tackling that goal in a multi-stage event announced late last year by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Events called Sprinters are intended to develop \u201coffensive swarm-enabled tactics\u201d for these emerging technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Swarm drone technology already exists. In 2016, the Defense Department successfully tested micro-drone swarms at China Lake, California. They dropped 103 Perdix drones from three F\/A-18 Super Hornet jet fighters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The drones had a 6.5-inch body and 11.8-inch wing span and weighed less 10.23 ounces, or as much as full can of soda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2015\/10\/13\/army-drone-wish-list-lighter-deadlier-survivable\/\" title=\"\" class=\"selected-link\" data-original-title=\"\" aria-describedby=\"popover64900\">Army drone wish list<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The autonomous micro-drones completed multiple missions, including adaptive formation flying, collective decision-making and self-healing, according to the Defense Department release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A video display shows the cluster or swarm find a target, circle within seconds and then converge on the target simultaneously and circle it at a 100-meter radius orbit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China Electronics Technology, a China-owned company, provided a demonstration in June that individually launched 119 drones with a slingshot-like device. The drones then gathered in a formation and flew patterns around nearby mountains, according to the Financial Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One tactical application would be to use the relatively inexpensive drones, purchased online, to swarm aircraft, which do not currently have effective countermeasures for such an attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2017\/01\/10\/pentagon-launches-103-unit-drone-swarm\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\">Pentagon launches 103-unit drone swarm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vasily Kashin, an expert on China\u2019s military at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, told the Financial Times that both China and the United States are racing to develop effective algorithms to use swarm technology in the air, on land and at sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2016 Defense Department test was focused on low-altitude intel missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new DARPA project will combine air and ground robots in a more complex environment \u2013 urban spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phase 1 of the project is led by Raytheon BBN Technologies and Northrop Grumman Corporation. The two companies will supply teams that will help design, develop and deploy open architecture for swarm technology in both virtual and physical environments, according to the DARPA website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The teams will experiment with the technology to make swarm capabilities real. Other competitors will then use the architecture to focus on one of five areas \u2013 swarm tactics, swarm autonomy, human-swarm teaming, virtual environment and physical testbed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each of the areas will be the focus in six-month intervals, officials said. At the end of each event there will be a test and integration assessment in both virtual and physical experiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There will also be ad hoc Sprinters at times between the scheduled six-month competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first sprint, which accepted applications through last November, will look at generating swarm tactics for a mixed swarm of 50 air and ground robots to \u201cisolate an urban objective within an area of two square city blocks over a mission duration of 15 to 30 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The robots must perform reconnaissance, identify ingress and egress points and establish a perimeter around an area of operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe swarm sprints are empirical experiments designed to accelerate our understanding of what swarms can do in urban environments,\u201d said Timothy Chung, program manager in the agency\u2019s Tactical 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