The U.S. Office of Naval Research has accumulated enough experience to bring its swarming UAV concept out to sea for testing next month.
The Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology (LOCUST) – whereby approximately thirty Coyote unmanned aircraft systems are launched rapidly and flown together – will be launched from the Sea Fighter off the east coast of United States.
“”We’ll launch large numbers of them, doing swarm operations, flying around, doing a number of different flight profiles, then doing a land recovery,” Lee Mastroianni, ONR’s program manager for LOCUST, told Military.com.