The US military aims to maintain its dominance by building autonomous attack drones that collaborate with humans and overwhelm defenses in swarms.
When Palmer Luckey cofounded the defense startup Anduril in 2017, three years after selling his virtual reality startup Oculus to Facebook, the idea of a twentysomething from the tech industry challenging the giant contractors that build fighter jets, tanks, and warships for the US military seemed somewhat far-fetched. Seven years on, Luckey is showing that Anduril can not only compete with those contractors—it can win.
Small so-called suicide drones, which attack targets by crashing into them, are used by troops on both sides. Ukrainian forces have access to US-made Switchblade models small enough to fit into backpacks. And they have also repurposed and adapted commercial technology, modifying agricultural and consumer drones to perform reconnaissance and bombing missions. These systems are all still remotely operated by humans.
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