This isn't a game of Command and Conquer with fog of war turned on. Of course they would have intel on exactly what they are going to attack. One cruise missile is about $4 million.

China already has created a UAV that is designed to launch at least 100 drones. If they can make that 1000 drones and then fly out 1000 of these motherships at one time, that's already 1 million.

And yes the drones would be autonomous, there's no reason for any person to be controlling them in the age of AI.

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kennywinker 2 hours ago | parent [-]

So then my $400/each price tag is wrong - it’ll be much higher. If nothing else, the high price of gpus and ram might be saving us from an attack like this lol.

But also, 1000 carrier drones is a lot easier to shoot down than 1mil drones.

	▲	freediddy 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		An attack like this might not be today, but in 10-20 years? If a country can develop this technology where multiple cities or military bases are completely overwhelmed by a swarm of drones, and all the politicians and generals are taken out by AI-controlled drones, why wouldn't they invest in it? As far as I can tell, unless some sort of localized EMP is developed, I don't know how an attack like this can be stopped. Maybe some sort of RF beam but I'm sure the devices can be shielded from that. It's much more effective than a cruise missile because you can just blow up weak points on bridges, buildings, take out entire military bases, etc. Even 1000 of these drones would be extremely effective but 1 million would be devastating.