Did you see that demonstration that the Navy put on using swarming drones that were dropped like chaffe from a pair of F/A-18F’s? That is the future. The rear seaters were simply cue-ing them via mouse-clicks to swarm a particular GPS coordinate. If you imagine each drown being effictively a cluster bomblet, then the enemy tank formation or SAM battery is in for a very bad day.
I don’t disagree that it’s the future - but as an IT consultant, I know that there’s going to be all sorts of reliability issues with that for the forseeable future. There’s also the fact that a swarm system as currently implemented runs smack into the “you radiate, you *die*” realities of near peer combat. China and Russia haven’t been idle while we’ve been working on swarms.