The U.S. Army is preparing for the future of warfare—one that it says will come with swarms of deadly combat drones filling the skies and dropping munitions from above.
It’s a scenario that seems more appropriate for a science fiction movie, or perhaps even a Hitchcock-esque nightmare. Earlier this week, however, the concept moved closer to reality at an Army training facility in California as the muted, concerted buzz of dozens of quadcopters, networked on a singular flight path, filled the morning sky.
