The light production by the 1824 drones used at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on July 23 is due to the "Shooting Star" system of Intel Corporation in the United States. This system was also used in the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, which was previously held in South Korea.
The "Shooting Star" system is a programmed flight with GPS and RTK positioning. It is a method of inputting a flight pattern and a light emission pattern in advance and flying it, and it does not perform remote control by human hands, and the drone itself does not have the self-judgment ability.
RTK (Real Time Kinematic) is a device that assists the GPS of the satellite positioning system to improve accuracy. It installs a reference station on the ground, detects GPS errors, and sends corrected information to the drone. This improves accuracy to the centimeter level and enables dense flight. For this reason, drones can only fly densely near the RTK reference station. In other words, this method is completely unsuitable for military use.
The future drone swarm tactics envisioned for military use do not simply mean a large number of drones. If it's just a large number of simultaneous attacks, it's just a classic tactic that can be done with existing multiple rocket launchers.
A drone swarm is a wandering weapon in which each drone engages in autonomous combat at its own discretion, and is a colonial weapon system in which a group of friends fight in cooperation with each other.
Evolved artificial intelligence (AI), excellent sensors, and communication network capabilities with wingmen. It is a future weapon that controls the search information obtained by the entire flock, directs attacks to friends near the target, summons distant friends, and acts while thinking like a single creature. When put on the battlefield, it will bring about a revolutionary change.
However, autonomous combat drones require advanced artificial intelligence to be completed in order to distinguish between enemies, allies, and non-combatants and fight, so practical application is still a long way off. If you don't need to make detailed identification, you can make it right away, but if you inadvertently put it on the battlefield, it will result in what can only be called a war crime.
An expert panel of the United Nations Security Council submitted a report in March 2021 stating that "Lethal Autonomous Weapons System (LAWS) autonomous combat drones may have been used in Libya." (Report * PDF document in English)
A panel of UN experts has suspected that the Turkish-made offensive drone "Kargu-2" has autonomous combat capabilities. The manufacturer, STM, claimed that Calg 2 had autonomous combat capabilities.
Harop has a high degree of artificial intelligence, as the UN expert panel has not suspected that the Israeli-made offensive drone "Halop" used in the previous Nagorno-Karabakh war has autonomous combat capabilities. It means that it has been certified as a wandering weapon at a level that is not an autonomous combat weapon that can only perform simple actions.
However, it does not seem that Calg 2 has advanced artificial intelligence to identify and fight enemies, allies and non-combatants. After all, autonomous combat weapons are a weapon system that has not yet been put into practical use even in the superpower America. Perhaps Calg 2 is a primitive indiscriminate attack weapon that cannot be identified in detail, and it is thought that it is an operation that is set to fly only in the range where it was convinced that there was only an enemy by pre-reconnaissance.
Since the investigation of the ability of Calg 2 has not been advanced, it is not yet known what level of technology it is. No decent results have been reported so far, so it's unclear if it's practical. However, if it were a revolutionary weapon, it would have been a big battle, so if it wasn't, it's likely that it's still at a low technical level.
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