A smartphone uses 'cloud' services for more than just data storage, more than you think. Translation services are useless offline for a reason, and not just google stealing your data.
A lot of the smartphones utility in day-to-day stuff is indeed tied to the internet. however when it comes to rendering and graphics, all that is done locally for most phone games. given the graphical fidelity and processing power required for some of the games that are currently available on mobile, I think doing some navigation calculations and fuzzy object recognition is possible.
You might be onto something. But the money needed to apply that to a swarm that's destined to suicide...I don't think they would be willing to make many of them. Smart bombs are one thing, but smart weapons is an expenditure they don't like making. And the uses for this swarm are very limited due to their payload capacity. They could be extremely destructive just as kamikaze without smart capabilities. Just look at Ukraine's latest past time: bombing Poland.
A smartphone uses 'cloud' services for more than just data storage, more than you think. Translation services are useless offline for a reason, and not just google stealing your data.
A lot of the smartphones utility in day-to-day stuff is indeed tied to the internet. however when it comes to rendering and graphics, all that is done locally for most phone games. given the graphical fidelity and processing power required for some of the games that are currently available on mobile, I think doing some navigation calculations and fuzzy object recognition is possible.
You might be onto something. But the money needed to apply that to a swarm that's destined to suicide...I don't think they would be willing to make many of them. Smart bombs are one thing, but smart weapons is an expenditure they don't like making. And the uses for this swarm are very limited due to their payload capacity. They could be extremely destructive just as kamikaze without smart capabilities. Just look at Ukraine's latest past time: bombing Poland.