{"id":15072,"date":"2019-05-08T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2019\/05\/08\/smart-drones-to-command-and-launch-smarter-missiles\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:01:19","slug":"smart-drones-to-command-and-launch-smarter-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/unmanned\/2019\/05\/08\/smart-drones-to-command-and-launch-smarter-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart drones to command and launch smarter missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The future of war is a synergy in euphemisms, launched as a co-branding event. AeroVironment \u2014 maker of missile systems, including the one-way guided flying \u201cswitchblade\u201d missile \u2014 announced May 7 that it is partnering with Kratos, maker of target and combat drones. The desired effect is cheap but smart drones to launch cheaper but smart missiles. It\u2019s an attempt at answering a question that has plagued the United States since the dawn of the jet age: As the costs of piloted craft go up, can anything be done to restore a numerical advantage in the sky?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAeroVironment tube-launched small unmanned aircraft and tactical missile systems to be integrated with Kratos high-speed, low-cost attritable drones to dramatically enhance situational awareness and system effectiveness,\u201d reads the announcement. Switchblade is tube-launched, and it flies like a small unmanned aircraft up until the point where it hits its target and explodes. \u201cTactical missile system\u201d is the formal term, though it\u2019s also known as a kamikaze drone or a suicide drone. Its flight time is too short to lump it in with the larger category of \u201cloitering munitions,\u201d but they\u2019re kindred spirits in function. As sensors got cheap and powerful and small, smart missiles with drone-like navigation systems became possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The high-speed low-cost attritable drone made by Kratos is the Mako, an adaptation of the company\u2019s BQM-167 Aerial Target. Like the roughly $900,000 apiece target it\u2019s based upon, the Mako is designed to be cheap enough that it can be fielded in numbers and replaced without straining the Pentagon\u2019s budget. (In 2017, the combat-capable Mako was pitched as costing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/future-air-force-fighters-leading-drone-swarms\" target=\"_blank\">between $1.5 million and $2 million each<\/a>. Not cheap in most senses, but relative to the going rate for a fifth-generation fighter, it\u2019s a bargain.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taken together, the Switchblade and the Mako could be \u201cattritable aerial assets,\u201d flying things that are useful, but not so expensive that losing them drastically alters the ability of commanders to direct fights or of pilots to win them. Cheap and flying alone doesn\u2019t win much on its own; the craft have to prove that they can actually perform the tasks assigned them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here, here is that crucial synergy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kratos and AeroVironment are working together to see if the Mako can launch, communicate with and control Switchblades. The larger drone would serve as a node in a network between a human and the airborne munition. The exact location of control, between the drone and the flying munitions and the human directing them, is unclear. Would the Switchblades seek targets based on what the Mako\u2019s sensors could spot? Would that information get relayed to the human controller in time to approve of or call off the strike?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are questions that can be answered in the course of a development. 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