The British Army has tested two industry-led drone swarm systems under realistic operational conditions as it moves toward fielding autonomous platforms in combat.
The competing options were developed by Saab-owned BlueBear and the Disruptor Group, a British consortium led by Applied Intuition. The army assessed how effectively each system carried out representative battlefield tasks.
The evaluations formed Phase 1 of the Software Defined Swarms Concept Demonstrator, led by the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) in partnership with Army Headquarters and industry.
Read the full story on our new publication, The Drone Front: British Army Puts Rival Drone Swarm Systems to the Test