DARPA’s Vision of Future War - Swarms of Missiles and Drones SoSITE project wants to overwhelm air

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DARPA’s Vision of Future War — Swarms of Missiles and Drones


SoSITE project wants to overwhelm air defense systems

by ROBERT BECKHUSEN

One of the most important jobs for an air force is suppressing enemy air defenses. It means hacking, jamming or otherwise blowing up radars and anti-aircraft missile sites — often during the opening stages of a war.

Now a new project from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency envisions a near-future strategy using a cargo plane converted into a missile and drone-packing mothership — all commanded by an F-35 stealth fighter.

In short, it’s about how to build a communications network between the mothership, drones and the fighter jet — which work together to destroy an enemy air defense site before it can shoot back.

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It’s about distributing “air warfare capabilities across a large number of interoperable manned and unmanned platforms,” DARPA stated in a March 30 press release. “The vision is to integrate new technologies and airborne systems with existing systems faster and at lower cost than near-peer adversaries can counter them.”

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/darpa-s-vision-of-future-war-swarms-of-missiles-and-drones-247493c1e4c2

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