Originally Posted by
A_Van
"Swarm" is not the right word in this context, and it was not used even in the Russian (stupid) media (but an English interpreter used it).
"Swarm" is typically used while addressing coordinated, interacting and self-organizing crowd of robotic devices. Too loud in this case where we see just wooden made-on-the-knees drones. And a dozen of them can hardly be considered as a "massive attack".
Nevertheless, it is good, military wise, to deal with such stuff for real training of the airbase personnel and identifying optimal measures to take away various models of this flying b-sh@t.
If it was a swarm (that being the correct plural for multiple unmanned aircraft under control of a single operator or having some element of self control the actual number required to classify it as a swarm is pretty irrelevant) it's actually quite a breakthrough. First reported use of a swarm to attack targets as far as I'm aware.
Even if it was multiple unmanned aircraft under control of multiple operators its still quite a significant event.
Better get them 2.4GHz jammers up and running.