Swarm weapons are feasible within the next decade and those swarm weapons could have a significant impact on the battlefield providing operational advantages through employment concepts like swarm parallel warfare, cooperative survival, pulsing, and adaptive area reconnaissance. To some extent, swarms are already starting to emerge on a small scale. Today, academic and military institutions are continually launching smaller scale swarms with up to 100-agents. Even a swarm of this scale could have an impact on the battlefield, but the real change and potential will come as the size of these swarms start to increase over the next decade. As swarms measured in the hundreds start to emerge, the true potential of swarm weapons becomes possible. By integrating existing technology with these new and larger swarms, their potential becomes apparent. A swarm weapon is more than just a quantitative advantage; it is the ability for a weapon to adapt to the changing environment through emergence.
