by David Hambling | Feb 29, 2016 | Latest Posts
Exactly the same factors that are driving the rise of swarms of aerial drones are also leading to underwater drone swarms: fleets of small, low-cost submarines capable of networking to carry out missions which were traditionally limited to much larger manned vehicles....
by David Hambling | Feb 20, 2016 | Latest Posts
“Flying bazooka drones are now a real thing” is the succinct headline for my piece in PM about the latest development from Russia. It looks like one of the larger DJI multicopters struggling to carry a rocket launcher, and it is certainly able to loose...
by David Hambling | Feb 2, 2016 | Latest Posts
I have a piece in Popular Mechanics on another side of small drones: their increasing proliferation as convenient tools for police and security forces for riot control, specifically as tear-gas bombers capable of laying down a screen of CS or other riot control agent...
by David Hambling | Feb 2, 2016 | Latest Posts
There’s a piece in the Northern Echo headlined “The Threat From Overhead” focusing on the issues highlighted in Swarm Troopers, especially on how the new technology is equally available to other countries and also to non-state actors including...
by David Hambling | Jan 17, 2016 | Latest Posts
The paperback version of the book is available from Amazon now — US price $14:99, £9:99 in the UK – – get it from your local Amazon...
by David Hambling | Jan 13, 2016 | Latest Posts
I have a piece in WIRED on how drone swarms are set to change the face of warfare. This looks in some detail at the US Navy’s LOCUST program. A swarm of thirty small drones is far harder to stop than one missile — and since the a Harpoon missile costs...
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