US To Employ Swarms of Drones For Preventing Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
U.S. Navy plans to acquire thousands of armed sea-borne attack drones from 2025 to prevent the Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
A drone concept called Hellscape is being developed in the Pacific to disrupt an amphibious invasion of Taiwan using loitering munitions and attack drones.
The attack using drones would sow confusion and chaos and buy time for U.S. and Taiwan to gather more forces.
The program to build these effective drones is inspired by Ukraine, which built similar low-cost surface drones and deployed them successfully against Russian vessels.
Industry submissions for building them and the required technologies to help them coordinate are being sought under the PRIME project.
The PRIME project is connected to the Pentagon’s Replicator initiative, which aims to counter the growing Chinese military capabilities.
Although the Replicator Project involves thousands of aerial drones, a maritime swarm would work with dozens of unmanned boats.