The investment of the U.S. military in the XQ-58 represents a wider move toward autonomy in warfare. Other projects, including Replicator and AMASS, have fleets of swarming drones that will be cheap and fast to take to war.It had been trumpeted as some sort of “loyal wingman” drone-that is to say, one that would fly along with manned planes, such as the F-35 and F-22. That was a big revolution in military strategy, effectively integrating autonomous systems into modern concepts of warfare.#drone