Chinese scientists create ‘kill-them-all’ algorithm for drone warfare

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Chinese scientists have developed the HG-STR algorithm for drone warfare, enabling autonomous drone swarms to effectively locate and destroy enemy targets even under jamming and vision obstruction conditions.

A research team from northwestern China has released a new algorithm that could fundamentally change how drone swarms hunt and destroy enemy targets. The algorithm, known as HG-STR (Heterogeneous Graph Spatio-Temporal Reasoning), promises to allow a fleet of fixed-wing drones to autonomously search a vast battlefield and eliminate every single enemy, even when their communications are being jammed and their vision is blocked. It is the first known algorithm capable of achieving a 100 per cent...