{"id":105397,"date":"2020-04-14T20:26:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T03:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/a-100-drone-swarm-dropped-from-jets-plans-its-own-moves"},"modified":"2020-04-14T20:26:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T03:26:20","slug":"a-100-drone-swarm-dropped-from-jets-plans-its-own-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/a-100-drone-swarm-dropped-from-jets-plans-its-own-moves","title":{"rendered":"A 100-Drone Swarm, Dropped from Jets, Plans Its Own Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-100-drone-swarm-dropped-from-jets-plans-its-own-moves.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2017<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>What\u2019s small, fast, and is launched from the bottom of a fighter jet? Not missiles, but a swarm of drones.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. military officials have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/News-Releases\/News-Release-View\/Article\/1044811\/department-of-defense-announces-successful-micro-drone-demonstration\">announced<\/a> that they\u2019ve carried out their largest ever test of a drone swarm released from fighter jets in flight. In the trials, three F\/A-18 Super Hornets released 103 Perdix drones, which then communicated with each other and went about performing a series of formation flying exercises that mimic a surveillance mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2017 What\u2019s small, fast, and is launched from the bottom of a fighter jet? Not missiles, but a swarm of drones. U.S. military officials have announced that they\u2019ve carried out their largest ever test of a drone swarm released from fighter jets in flight. In the trials, three F\/A-18 Super Hornets released 103 Perdix [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}