Popular Mechanics: The Air Force Wants to Unleash a Robotic “Golden Horde” on Adversaries
Because nobody expects Genghis Khan in 21st century warfare.
* The U.S. Air Force is planning make precision-guided weapons semi-autonomous, capable of communicating and cooperating with one another after launch to maximize their potential on the battlefield.
* The effort, called Golden Horde, would also allow weapons like the Tomahawk cruise missile to communicate with one another to choose which targets next to destroy.
* A person in the loop would still have final say over target destruction, however, ensuring these robotic weapons couldn’t make life or death decisions on their own.
Golden Horde is designed to incorporate to the Air Force’s three most urgent technologies: precision guided weapons, artificial intelligence, and communications networking. Precision guided weapons, united by secure communications links and endowed with artificial intelligence, would be launched en masse at the enemy, with missiles aimed at preplanned targets.
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WNU Editor: The use of the phrase “Golden Horde” is an odd choice for an Air Force weapons program.
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