A vision of the wars of the future.
Elon Musk and other visionaries have already spoken openly that the Wars of the future will be fought and won with the use of drones. Based on this information, he imagines a system capable of commanding thousands of drones at the same time in military operations. It seems like something out of science fiction, but this technology is already being developed.
The L3Harris technologist recently revealed the Amorphous, an advanced solution to manage swarms of drones through a single control interface, this system will allow the coordination of unmanned vehicles from different manufacturers, bringing a new era for technological warfare.
The amorphous acronym means autonomous multi-domain operations resilience platform for unmanned heterogeneous swarms. The software allows operators to control thousands of drones in a coordinated manner, regardless of the company that manufactured the equipment and its system uses Artificial Intelligence to decentralize decisions, allowing the drones to act autonomously on the battlefield.
Attack, defense and clearance operations.
In other words, the amorphous was designed for high-risk missions from reconnaissance to precision strikes and early tests have already shown that the system can control different types of drones operating in complex environments simultaneously.
The development of morphs follows the trend of the so-called Swarm war where hundreds or even thousands of drones work together as a single attack or defense unit, the Darpa defense advanced research projects agency already conducts experiments in the offset program that foresees swarms with more than 250 drones operating completely autonomously to fulfill missions in complex urban areas.
These drones can perform reconnaissance, attack, defense and even confuse enemy radars. The system uses augmented reality, artificial intelligence and voice or gesture commands to allow more intuitive control by human operators and the idea is that swarms of drones can adapt their strategies in real time, automatically reacting to new threats.
Darpa's goal of companies like L3Harris is to create an interface that allows entire swarms to be coordinated with minimal human intervention. With technologies such as amorphous and offset, the United States military aims to reduce dependence on human soldiers and high-risk missions. The trend is that in the future drones will take on entire operations from patrols to coordinated attacks.
If this technology continues to evolve we could see entire battles being fought only between intelligent machines.
