New products show China’s quest to automate battle

The drones that fanned out during a recent People’s Liberation Army exercise were dispatched by the Intelligent Precision Strike System, a new product from Chinese defense giant Norinco that used the UAVs’ real-time data to model the battlefield, track targets, devise strike plans, distribute firing information, and execute follow-up strikes. According to the video playing in Norinco’s booth at the most recent Zhuhai Air Show, almost all of this was done autonomously excep