{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blog-post-js","path":"/blog/pentagon-developing-drone-swarm-weapon-of-mass-destruction-report/","result":{"data":{"site":{"siteMetadata":{"title":"No Frills News"}},"contentfulNfnPost":{"postTitle":"Pentagon developing drone swarm 'weapon of mass destruction': report","slug":"pentagon-developing-drone-swarm-weapon-of-mass-destruction-report","createdLocal":"2023-02-12 14:31:04.304923","publishDate":"None","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","sourceUrl":{"sourceUrl":"https://thepostmillennial.com/pentagon-developing-drone-swarm-weapon-of-mass-destruction-report"},"postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"<p>\"The drones would be equipped with multiple different tools, ranging from weapons that jam enemy radar to ones that carry out lethal attacks.Agency officials said the drone swarms will be assigned \"through an optimization process that considers mission objectives, priorities, risks, resource availability, swarm capabilities, and timing.\n\"\"In theory, AMASS could be entirely non-lethal, carrying out jamming or other non-kinetic attacks in support of other platforms that actually destroy the defenses,\" he said.\n\"I think that's unlikely though.\n\"\"A massive drone swarm prone to errors would be a terrifying thing — a new weapon of mass destruction,\" Kallenborn added.In 2020, the researcher warned at West Point's Modern War Institute publication of the danger of drone swarms, arguing that they be designated as weapons of mass destruction, or WMDs.\n\"Armed, fully autonomous drone swarms should be classified as WMD because of their degree of potential harm and inherent inability to differentiate between military and civilian targets—both of which are characteristics of existing weapons categorized as WMD,\" he wrote.</p>"}}}},"pageContext":{"slug":"pentagon-developing-drone-swarm-weapon-of-mass-destruction-report"}}}