After several simulated wars, Chen’s team discovered that deploying more or higher- performance , drones , did not necessarily offer better results. When the number and size of drone formations in a combat grid area surpassed a certain point, they could successfully impose their will over the island and its surrounding waters, thwarting international aid, and imposing sanctions on the island.
” More increasing the number of monitoring robots will enhance fight capacity, but the change is never significant”, the experts wrote.
Chen leads the testing and analysis of autonomous systems and their , operating use , at a military center in the coastal town of Huludao, Liaoning province. The National University of Defence Technology and Tsinghua University supported this analysis.
The researchers claimed that” the analysis and evaluation of simulation results may reveal the weaknesses of combat scenarios and yet overcome strategies, helping to refine combat issues and combat scenario design.”
Additionally, they intend to evaluate the simulation’s findings in the real world.
A conflict strategy that is disconnected from actual army testing is unfortunately only be a castle in the air, Chen wrote.
But while China has been testing its drone- just battle plans, the US military next month revealed , its unique blueprint , to employ swarms of drones in the Taiwan Strait, in a strategy dubbed” Hellscape”.
These robots are intended to counter any attempt by the Army to get on , Taiwan, thus sparing US deaths.
In an interview that was made available on June 10, US Indo-Pacific Command head Admiral Samuel Paparo told The Washington Post,” I want to turn the Taiwan Strait into an unmanned hellscape.”
Though the US government’s drone warfare methods and capabilities remain defined, Paparo said that under the , Hellscape plan, the drones- both in the air and in the water- had “make their lives absolutely miserable for a month, which buys me the time for the rest of everything”.
” I ca n’t tell you what’s in it. But it’s real and it’s deliverable”, Paparo said of the plan.
Senior Colonel Wu Qian, a spokesman for the Chinese defense ministry, called the US strategy” crazy and inhumane.”
” Those who clamor for turning others ‘ homeland into hell should get ready for burning in hell themselves,” he said in Beijing last week.
China is a global leader in capacity and technology for manufacturing drones. According to Bloomberg, Chinese drones make up 70 % of the American industrial and consumer markets, and 30 % of the total.
According to a Wall Street Journal report in April,  , Chinese drones , have shown superior performance compared to American drones during battle in Ukraine.
However, the US military claims that the PLA would be deterred by the use of thousands of drones in the Hellscape plan.
” My job is to ensure that between now and 2027 and beyond, the US military and its allies are capable of prevailing”, Paparo said.
This article was first published on , SCMP.