Russian firm unveils Platform-Agnostic drone swarm control system

Russian defense firm Kronshtadt unveiled a drone swarm control system at the Dubai Airshow 2021, which can be mounted on airborne or shipborne platforms.

The artificial intelligence-backed system controls a group of drones without an operator’s direct control, TASS revealed citing a company’s representative.

The outlet added that the operator will only “set general goals,” leaving the main tasks such as drone flight control, systems management, target tasks, and ensuring interoperability inside drone swarms for the AI.

The outlet cited a company’s representative as saying that a single system can simultaneously control four Kronshtadt-made Orion unmanned aerial vehicles while five systems can be outfitted in a single platform enhancing the number of drones in the swarm to 20. The outlet added that efforts are on to make the system compatible with non-Kronshtadt drones in the future.