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China integrates air, land, and sea drones into advanced swarm technology

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China is advancing its drone technology by integrating air, land, and sea platforms into unified swarm systems. The China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) is leading this effort, aiming to create a combat network that links uncrewed assets across multiple domains. These heterogeneous swarms are being developed to autonomously reconfigure, maintain formation integrity, and operate effectively even with unit losses or communication disruptions. AI

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China integrates air, land, and sea drones into advanced swarm technology

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Albee Zhang ·

    Merging air, land and sea swarms – the next frontier in China’s drone technology

    If mastering drone-swarm technology were not difficult enough, China is now tackling the more complex task of integrating uncrewed land, sea and air platforms, according to the country’s leading developer in the field. In an article posted on China Electronics Technology Group Co…

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