Philip Hicks 3rd Principal Consultant & Founder at Pravo...

Philip Hicks 3rd
Principal Consultant & Founder at Pravo Consulting; Partner at Campaign Catapult; multi-award winner, tech communications strategist, PR and writer

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Swarms of low-cost drones powered by AI — perhaps hundreds of them at the same time — could soon pose an existential threat to America's hulking war machinery. Why it matters: Advanced militaries can largely fend off individual drones. But swarms of them deployed on a single target have the potential to reshape the global balance of power. The big picture: Future battles will be fought with a connected mix of cheap weapons — not sophisticated weapons systems that only superpowers can afford, retired Adm. James Stavridis and Marine veteran Elliot Ackerman argued yesterday in a Wall Street Journal essay. Expensive aircraft carriers or stealth bombers, which require massive time commitments to develop and build, will become vulnerable to drones that almost every military and armed group can access. "This moment hasn't yet arrived, but it is rushing to meet us," Stavridis and Ackerman write. See links to earlier posts, including: Sea Drone Swarms – Can NATO’s Navies Avoid Russia’s Fate? https://lnkd.in/dVcJtQTP Going the way of the ironclads? The Mighty Aircraft Carrier Is Now Just a Floating Graveyard? Some Say Yes https://lnkd.in/eec6vmSg The rise of the UAV Carrier (Naval Gazing) by Trevor Hollingsbee https://lnkd.in/dguEUbnh Multi-drone-domain mothership https://lnkd.in/eycykhyN UK outlines three ‘tiers’ of military drones https://lnkd.in/eGQP2AvT Damen shipyard in Romania to build drone aircraft carrier for Portuguese navy https://lnkd.in/dYyHkBdm US Navy envisions ‘hundreds of thousands’ of drones in the Pacific to deter China. https://lnkd.in/emprD5dS French Navy's Unit 36F, based in Hyeres, has recently incorporated the Schiebel Camcopter S-100 https://lnkd.in/eX6vBR2n A Northrop Grumman unmanned aircraft system is indispensable to the US Navy’s future ability to monitor actions around the world https://lnkd.in/e-95BwBA #drones #uav #uas #droneswarm #stealth #aircraftcarriers #military Pravo Consulting ,Campaign Catapult


The future of war will be AI-driven cheap drone swarms