Is moving many drones in a formation so truly difficult? I’ve seen drones in formation all the time for drones show and fireworks. Hundreds and even thousands of them, and most likely they are not remote controlled but programmed to do so.

Why was the account painted as something extraordinary?

While this seems like a novel secretive technology at first glance it could easily have been a drone swarm similar to those you would see at a firework show. Stick one of those in a planes flight path and it would cause alot of trouble.

That effect and formation isn’t hard to achieve, I did it before. It boils down to having a “leader” drone and the others are some sort of followers, while taking into account the speed/location/etc. I have even added few other features like when the leader goes down, another drone gets automatically “promoted” to be one and carry on the mission. The critical thing in it is the network connectivity, either centralized or not, so most of the work is about how that formation works in terms of network bring up and rerouting automatically.

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