Chinese scientists create ‘kill-them-all’ algorithm for drone warfare

A research team from northwestern China has released a new algorithm that could fundamentally change how drone swarms hunt and destroy enemy targets.The algorithm, known as HG-STR (Heterogeneous Graph Spatio-Temporal Reasoning), promises to allow a fleet of fixed-wing drones to autonomously search a vast battlefield and eliminate every single enemy, even when their communications are being jammed and their vision is blocked.It is the first known algorithm capable of achieving a 100 per cent kill rate while operating fast enough to keep up with the pace of modern warfare, according to a peer-reviewed paper published in China’s top aviation journal Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica on May 19.