| In the future both the US and our Allies, as well as our | | | | swarm attacking a human group of soldiers. But we |
| enemies will be using robotic insect swarms to attack | | | | should consider how nature would attack this problem. |
| soldiers. This means thousands if not hundreds of | | | | Use a larger UAV to perhaps collect them like a giant |
| thousands of insects making their own cloud of | | | | Hoover Vacuum Cleaner; that is to say collect them in |
| darkness like a killer bee swarm times ten or a small | | | | a bag and then seal them up. They may have |
| Locust Plague. These swarming robotic insects will | | | | biological weapons on them and will need to be |
| attempt to over whelm the troops and kill them or | | | | sterilized. |
| perhaps use a non-lethal dose of injection to put them | | | | The UAV defense swarm killer will need to make |
| to sleep. Either way the enemy swarms will be able to | | | | many passes just like when you vacuum your floor |
| cause an entire platoon of troops to lose their will to | | | | and there may need to be many of them working as |
| fight or kill them all with small directional explosive | | | | a team together like the net-centric underwater |
| charges on contact. How can we stop them? Is it | | | | unmanned autonomous vehicles, which search for |
| possible to stop such a strategy or enemy weapon? I | | | | under water sea mines. And these units cannot have |
| believe it is. How so you ask? | | | | air intakes or the UAV would get clogged up by all the |
| Well consider flying a UAV or unmanned aerial vehicle | | | | attacking swarm units; they most likely could have to |
| into a swarm to stop them? This is how one species | | | | run on batteries or a fuel cell. I hope you will consider |
| would do it against another. Did you know that Bats | | | | this in 2006, as one potential strategy for taking out a |
| eat up to 1000 bugs per hour? In this case we would | | | | swarm of micro-mechanical devices aimed at our |
| not necessarily eat them as they are merely a robotic | | | | troops. |