Design of Kill Chain Architecture for UAV Swarm Against Large-Scale Unknown Targets
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Zhiwei Li, Runze Shi, Donghao Zhao, Lei Ding, Yuke LiuAuthors Info & Claims
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UAV swarm is a new powerful force in future warfare, characterized by its high autonomy, stealth and rapid deployment. A UAV swarm can form a closed kill chain with various payloads for reconnaissance, control, strike, assessment and so on, which can significantly enhance combat effectiveness. However, when facing large unknown targets, the existing architecture faces a large number of uncertain events in the control stage, which causes the kill chain performance to drop sharply. To cope with the large uncertainty, this paper uses the advantages of SDN/NFV architecture and the consensus feature of blockchain technology, and designs a three-layer kill chain architecture with “sense-control-strike” three layers, focusing on compressing decision time and accelerating the closure of the kill chain. The effectiveness of the proposed architecture is verified by multiple scenarios of structural validity simulation on a 200km wide, 300km long rectangular task area. The proposed architecture provides valuable guidance for accelerating the closure speed of UAV swarm kill chains.
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