Drone swarms of 50+ targets overwhelm C-UAS operator consoles designed for single-threat tracking

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Current C-UAS interfaces present each drone as an individual track requiring manual classification and engagement authorization, but when 50-100 drones arrive as a coordinated swarm, an operator physically cannot classify all targets before arrival -- at 60 km/h, a swarm 2km out arrives in 2 minutes, giving 2.4 seconds per target. This persists because C-UAS doctrine was built around the single-drone threat model of 2015-2020, and autonomous engagement violates DoD Directive 3000.09 requiring human judgment in lethal force decisions. No military has solved how to keep a human 'in the loop' when threat arrival rate exceeds human cognitive processing speed.

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https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3661785/dod-updates-autonomous-weapons-policy/

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