Perdix drones are named after the mythological partridge. The flying machines are small enough to sit in the palm of your hand. They are released from pods mounted on the wings of fighter jets, a cloud of them all at once—like a flock of starlings seeding themselves into the sky. They are sturdy enough to be released at Mach 0.6, almost five hundred miles per hour. After the initial orders are programmed in remotely by human operators, the drones are designed to act autonomously. They are sprayed out in a flock of twenty or more, sending signals to one another, creating their own intelligence
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