India Advances Homegrown Drone Swarm System for Coordinated Strikes
ARMANET uses one interface to create customized formations, monitor individual drones in real time, and share target data.
Indian startup Armanetics has developed ARMANET, a mission control platform designed to coordinate multiple quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as a single swarm.
Through one interface, an operator can create customized formations, monitor individual drones in real time, share target data, and coordinate payload delivery.
The system also supports coordinated strike missions, with activities managed at the mission level rather than drone by drone.
According to the company, the software does not rely on cloud infrastructure, allowing it to function with limited or no external network connectivity.
“One operator. One system. An entire swarm. This is ARMANET. Built by Armanetics,” the company explained.
“What we are building is more than a group of drones flying together. It is a coordinated autonomous system designed to multiply the capability of every operator.”
From Lab to Field Trials
Armanetics recently put ARMANET through field trials attended by senior Indian Army officials, taking the system beyond laboratory development and into a more realistic operating environment.
Drawing on the results, its engineers are now working to improve the platform’s capabilities, reliability, and scalability.
After bootstrapping its development, the company is also seeking investment to further refine the system.
“ARMANET is our flagship swarm drone platform with multiple capabilities for military use cases,” said Anurag Kumar Sinha, a technician at Armanetics.
“ARMANET is featured on multiple pages and channels across different platforms. We have developed and tested it for months before actually deploying it.”
Source: NextGen Defence
