Research on foreign anti-UAV swarm warfare

Abstract

UAV swarm operations are developing rapidly towards intelligence and actual combat, which will pose a huge threat on the future battlefield. Therefore, research on anti-UAV swarm operations is imperative. This paper analyzes the development history, research progress, and actual combat application of UAV swarms and sorts out the research status of foreign anti-UAV swarm operations from three aspects: detection and tracking, hard damage, and soft kill methods. Hard damage include conventional weapons, directed energy weapons, and armed combat drone, and soft kills include electronic jamming and deception control. Finally, the future development trend of anti-drone swarm warfare is proposed, including seamless and comprehensive detection and early warning, efficient intelligent decision-making and deployment, the coordination of new conventional weapons, the combination of soft and hard damage, multi-dimensional intelligent system operations, and standard formulation are urgently needed.

Keywords

• anti-uav swarm methods|detection and tracking|hard damage|soft kill|directed energy weapon