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Israel has utilised an AI-guided drone swarm to carry out attacks on Hamas militants in what is believed to be a world-first use of the technology.
An Israeli Defence Force (IDF) support unit deployed the swarm to locate and target Hamas militants who had allegedly fired rockets into Israel in May.
Drones are typically guided by a human operator, but drone swarms represent a step forward in military technology by flying as one integrated network controlled by artificial intelligence.
The swarm requires only a single human operator to direct the entire swarm and before the drones guide themselves to locate the targets as a connected unit.
The news comes just weeks after Israel announced the successful testing of a new laser defence system that can shoot down enemy missiles by burning a hole in them.
The drone swarm only requires a single human to control it and flies as a network connected by artificial intelligence
The swarm can continue to operate even if some of the individual drones are destroyed, and can be deployed for a range of purposes including target identification, reconnaissance, and payload delivery (pictured: Israeli air strike unrelated to drone operation)
The swarm has been used to identify and provide targeting information to guided mortar weapons to destroy enemy forces and weapons caches (pictured: Israeli air strike unrelated to drone
