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Palladyne SwarmOS: AI-managed heterogeneous drone swarm shown at Ivy Mass

Published 27 June 2026

During the US “Ivy Mass” exercise, Palladyne’s SwarmOS allowed a single operator to command a mixed fleet of reconnaissance and strike UAVs acting as a coordinated autonomous swarm. Reconnaissance platforms identified and classified targets autonomously, then passed tasking data to strike UAVs through a shared command layer, compressing the sensor-to-shooter cycle without additional operators. Russian defence analysts note the technology is in active development across the US, UK, Ukraine, and China, and NATO has flagged imminent mass employment of AI-enabled unmanned systems.

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