Apparently Drones are the next game-changer, after tanks, as Iranian drones now operated by Russia has stopped the Ukrainians DEAD, even given their vaunted ‘Million Man March’ (to Moscow, I guess).
It’s called Loyal Wingman in the USAF
Wilsbach qualified his comments by saying that the Air Force has “had a limited opportunity to assess it [the J-20], but it seems ok.” He added that after “some recent close engagements we had with our 5th gen jets and some of their J-20s” in the Pacific region, the Air Force had “learned a lot from that,” but that “it is nothing frankly that I would worry too much about.”
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Translation is “Our F-35s could see them, they couldn’t see us.”
A swarm is a large number of machines with minor capabilities that are coordinated into a group that has more capability as a group than they have as individuals. The thing to do is find out how the group is coordinated and disrupt that. It could be radio, ultrasound or even lasers. Disrupt the coordination and control and the swarm is reduced to uselessness.
That video will cause a few heart attacks at night. And a few wrecks!