Navy buys 100 drones for ‘swarm vs. swarm’ training exercise

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A naval school is buying 100 drones that will battle each other in a sky-filling swarm of remotely controlled action.

“The vision for the inaugural grand challenge event is for 50 vs. 50 [unmanned aerial vehicles] in the year 2015,” according to a request for proposals from vendors who can sell the Navy the flying robots.

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