A cooperative salvo can assign one missile to rise and scan while others stay low. Communication lets the exposed missile share detections with the rest of the attack. Work on these ideas reaches back to earlier decades, including the 1970s and 1980s. A drone guiding other drones continues that development, qualifying claims that the basic concept is new.
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Cooperative missile salvos before modern drone swarms
A missile rising to search and sharing information with low-flying companions supplies an older precedent for cooperative drone attacks.