Taiwan: Asymmetric Defense via Autonomous Drone Swarms (warontherocks.com)

• Deployment of autonomous seabed-based underwater assets
• Saturation attacks using mixed drone and missile waves
• Disruption of large-scale naval amphibious formations

"A 2029 simulation details Taiwan's shift to a 'porcupine' defense strategy, utilizing autonomous underwater vehicles and mass kamikaze drone swarms to repel a PLA amphibious assault. By saturating the Taiwan Strait with low-cost, expendable assets, Taiwan disrupts the electronic and kinetic coordination of a much larger Chinese invasion fleet. The article highlights the critical transition toward automated, high-volume drone warfare, which threatens the traditional dominance of surface naval platforms through swarm-based saturation attacks."