I have tried to bring together a compilation of selected articles from reputable sources on drone technology: where it is now, problems the Pentagon is having, and where it is going.
1. US Army: by Maj Jamie Schwandt
https://www.ausa.org/articles/improve-drone-technology-future-battlefields
Drones that stay aloft indefinitely through the “Power cloud.” “Global Energy Transmission’s long-term vision is to create a network that will allow thousands of drones to share power and information wirelessly.”
2. The Atlantic, by Mark Bowden
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/russia-ukraine-war-drones-future-of-warfare/672241/
“Drone swarms could end that (American air) domination. An aircraft carrier? The White House? The president? Sitting ducks.”
3. Hudson: “We don’t have the missiles to stop China. Time for Drone Swarms” by Bryan Clark
https://www.hudson.org/defense-strategy/we-dont-have-missiles-stop-china-time-drone-swarms
“This is a failure of both analysis and imagination by the world’s largest and most expensive defense establishment.”
4. Air&Space Forces magazine “USAF needs money to stop drone swarms” by Greg Hadley
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-official-acquisition-funds-counter-drone-swarm/
5. Air Force Research Lab, Demonstration of THOR, microwave anti drone technology by Nina Rogers
https://www.afrl.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3396995/afrl-conducts-swarm-technology-demonstration/
6. Popular Mechanics, Russians now using Sleeper drones by Sascha Brodsky
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a44630125/russia-building-hibernating-drones/
. “The Joker (drone) takes lengthy naps to hide from electronic countermeasures…. One FPV pilot can place and then wake up and sequentially use up to 15 sleeping drones.”
7. Hudson: “Chinese drones are spying on Americans” by Rebecca Heinrichs
https://www.hudson.org/national-security-defense/chinese-drones-are-spying-on-americans
8. Hudson: Richard Weitz
“Ending our Chinese drone addiction”
https://www.hudson.org/technology/ending-our-chinese-drone-addiction-richard-weitz
9. Hudson: “New Pentagon drone program needs to avoid past mistakes” Bryan Clark & Dan Patt
https://www.hudson.org/information-technology/new-pentagon-drone-program-needs-avoid-replicating-past-mistakes-bryan-clark-dan-patt