“Do a YouTube search for “Drone Swarms”. We already have tactics being tested.”
I have researched the subject. The big company solutions are too big and heavy for infantry. The solutions are oriented towards bases. And, those solutions assume, on average, that you don’t need to deploy them while simultaneously protecting yourself from other non drone threats.
There’s a huge asymmetry in drones vs. anti-drone technology. ISIS deployed drones they bought off Amazon and then modified for battlefield use. So, call it $1500 per drone. The solutions cost a lot more and have limited utility in most battlefield situations.
At the present time, the US could probably lock up the usable electromagnetic space over an area, thus knocking out any cheap, remotely controlled drones. But we probably can’t handle the self flying models that are already possible.
Affordable autonomous drones enable a thrilling new hobby: urban drone wars. Democrat downtowns mostly evacuate on Sundays. America lovers could hold hunt-from-home team competitions to program and fly drones through metro forests (after church of course). The drones could be limited to rubber bullet machine guns and rubber tipped arrows, for now.