In the maelstrom of the technological race of the great world powers in matters of war, China has the advantage in several areas. Now the latest military leap of the Asian giant was known and how a single operator can handle more than 200 drones.
The arms race today means that wars have changed a lot thanks to technology. War life in the middle of 2026 depends on the Artificial Intelligence algorithms and developments in software and hardware. One of the key points are drones, which reconfigured the board of wars.
The thing is that before, a drone was a very expensive piece. Today almost the entire strategy is based on drones FPV (First-Person View) and many of these are modified commercials, which cost very little compared to the previous generation. Due to their conflict that has been going on for several years, countries like Russia y Ukraine They are manufacturing millions of units a year
If a drone «suicidal«, loaded with a bomb, can destroy million-dollar tanks, the economic and tactical gain is abysmal. For this reason, the fact that China can control 200 drones with only one operator means a military leap that is difficult to measure.
The American newspaper The Wall Street Journal produced a report entitled «China Trains AI-Controlled Weapons With Learning From Hawks, Coyotes» (China trains AI-controlled weapons with knowledge of hawks and coyotes«, which tells of the technological leap in Asia driven by swarms of drones and autonomous systems with little human intervention.
According to the text, engineers at one of the main Chinese universities linked to the army needed a way to simulate confrontations between «swarms» of drones in real time and for this they resorted to the inspiration of nature.
The military is using deep learning algorithms (deep learning) to study the hunting behavior of natural predators such as falcons or packs of wolves and coyotes.
They watched how they choose their prey and trained drones to identify and destroy the most vulnerable enemy aircraft. It is the concept of «biological mimicry«, so that the drones not only «copy» the behavior, but also adopt strategies like animals do.
Defensively, they were taught to dodge attacks based on behavior of pigeons against hawkswhile they were inspired by the latter to imitate the «swoop» fall and precision of these birds to attack moving targets.
On the other hand, regarding «pack tactics», training with the IA coordinates several drones («swarms«), to surround a target, such as an aircraft carrier or air defense system, from multiple angles, distracting it and executing a plan to attack from another side.
In the report, the media highlighted that China seeks weapons that do not require constant communication with a human being. This bases its logic on the fact that if the radio signal is cut off, the drone’s AI has the «hunting instinct«, and continues to operate autonomously based on the behavior of others.
