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The fire ants can give ideas for swarming robots.



The ants and other swarm operating bugs are used as models for swarming robots. When we think of the independently operating drone swarms controlled by artificial intelligence. Those systems did not exist 10 years ago. Even the small-size quadcopters and other drones can operate as a swarm. 

The nuclear-powered drone swarms can operate in the atmosphere of other planets. They can operate underwater conditions in the Marianna Trench. And the icy oceans in the Jupiter and Saturn icy moons. But they can also be new and powerful tools on the battlefields. 

The thing that makes this thing possible is the network-based system called "distributed calculation". Developers created this system for making animations for computers. The idea is that the computers can share their capacity and resources with other computers. 

The network-based system allows making the drone swarm. That can connect data that their sensors are delivering. The drones can stay on their operational area as the plate. When one of those systems is seeing something interesting. It shares that data with all others. 

Small-size quadcopters might have only one or two sensors like regular CCD, infrared, or some kind of radars. The quadcopter can also carry seismic or acoustic sensors. That means those drones can lay to the ground and feel the seismic oscillations. 

Those systems can also eavesdrop on enemy speech. The quadcopter can also have chemical detectors that allow them to find the ammunition or fuel dump. The thing is that the large numbers of those swarming robots are replacing the quality. 


It's possible that in the future. There are three types of aerial systems. Or actually, those systems already exist. 


1) Simple, one mission drones

2) Multimission drones

3) Manned systems


Those systems are integrated as an entirety. The network-based systems allow sharing the information between components of the military systems. The aerial systems are also integrated to the part of the entirety where the sea and land troops are also participating in the network-based battlefields. 


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The hierarchy of aerial systems can be like this:


1) The simple, and cheap one mission drones. That is pulling missile fire away from the more complicated systems. Those drones can also be used as miniaturized killer robots. Those quadcopter-looking systems or loitering ammunition called "kamikaze drones" are the systems. 

Those terrorists are using most probably. The problem with those systems is that they are thought of as cruise missiles that are making more curves than normal cruise missiles. 


2) Multi-purpose drones can be remotely controlled systems. Or independent operating AI-driven systems. Those systems can use as remote-controlled or independently operating attack aircraft. 

Or they can have the internal warhead. They can operate alone or with manned aircraft. The loyal wingman drone's mission is to pull the missile fire away from the manned aircraft or attack against missile stations. 

The drones can also make the plate under their aircraft makes more difficult to shoot them down. The quadcopters can have infrared lights that give masks for stealth fighters.  

And they can spray iron powder into the air making it difficult to see the stealth aircraft. That is behind those drones. The stealth fighter can make the strikes by using satellite-guided weapons. 


3) The manned aircraft.  The loyal wingmen drones can be used as "kamikaze drones" or remote-controlled auxiliary jet fighters. The controller of those drones can sit on the back seat of the stealth fighter. Those drones can share their data between the computers of the jet fighters.

But they can also be 1000 kilometers away in the command centers. That thing might not be very sportsmanlike. But also in the Spartan army, the idea was that if somebody attacked one Spartan, the another would hit that attacker to back by using the spear. 


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Social bugs like ants are giving data on how the system should operate as swarms. The swarming robots can close the route of the jet fighters. And the thing that makes them more powerful than regular sensors is that those quadcopters can fly in jet engines. 

When we are thinking the technology behind those quadcopters is that the individual member of the drone swarms must not be versatile. The entirety is versatile because those quadcopters or other types of drones might have different types of sensors. 

The drone swarms are complicated things. They can produce at the combat zone by using 3D printers and automatized manufacturing platforms. Those systems can detect things like missiles in seconds if they are in position. Drones can deliver from satellites and the thing is that those systems can assassinate individual persons. 

In those systems, the image recognition system will locate the target. And the small drone will drop from the satellite. The heat core denies the burning of that system. The quadcopter can be equipped with a regular pistol that makes it a very suitable and dangerous system in the wrong hands. 

Drones are effective in conflicts. They can make sudden attacks from the sky by using smart weapons. This thing makes them feared and brutal systems. But the defenders of the drone attacks are saying that the purpose of weapons is to fear enemies. Some people are saying that drones are easy to shoot down. 

Or they are easy to affect. If we think that the drone that costs the same price as some car hits by a missile that price is over a million euros that thing can be acceptable. One of the purposes of drone swarms is to pull missile fire to them away from the complicated manned aircraft and drones. 

But when we are thinking about the situation in Ukraine where are no swarming drones we must ask one interesting question. If drones are easy to destroy or jam. 

Why don't the Russians destroy those drones? Why do they allow the Turkish-build drones to fly around their vehicles, and destroy them? That is one interesting thing to think about. 


https://phys.org/news/2022-03-physics-ant-rafts-swarming-robots.html


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