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How Drone Swarms Work—From Iran’s Shahed Attack to Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb


Iranian Shahed drones, Ukrainian quadcopters and the U.S.’s Golden Horde program reveal three paths to massed autonomy, and each rewrites the rules of air defense

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