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Underwater Drone Swarms

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....

Non-Lethal Small Drones in Popular Mechanics

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...

Swarm Troopers in the Northern Echo

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...

Swarming Drones in WIRED

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...