Video: Super Hornet Jets release micro-drone swarm for surveillance mission, they whine like angry wasps, and can you imagine the advanced tech that’s still highly classified?
U.S. military officials have announced that they’ve 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. The Perdix drone are able to withstand speeds of Mach 0.6 and temperatures of -10 °C during release.