The United States military successfully launched what it’s calling “one of the world’s largest micro-drone swarms” in October. At a test site in California, the 103 Perdix drones released from three F ...

Three F-18 fighter jets scream over the California desert. They leave 104 tiny capsules in their wake. These capsules, each one smaller than a shoebox, flutter down on parachutes then break open and ...

A new generation of drones is coming. The U.S. military has used the remotely piloted vehicles for more than 15 years, but now the devices are capable of flying missions autonomously — and in a swarm.

In one of the largest successful demonstrations of swarming micro-drones, over 100 Perdix UAVs screamed over the US Naval Air Systems Command’s testing grounds at China Lake, California last October.

The U.S. Department of Defense has already tested a revolutionary weapon that is being touted as the biggest thing since the nuclear bomb. This involves a swarm of drones that has a single brain for ...