Something like YOLO would also be very good at this, albeit it would require more compute for suitable performance. You essentially need a decent-ish GPU (think ~GTX 1060) for this application. And stuff like the Coral TPUs are too unreliable for this application (performance is hit or miss, and they are heat and vibration sensitive). These opinions all obtained from experience[1].

And, I worked on this specific stuff in the military, so I am very familiar with the theory and operation here. Albeit, the military stuff is much more advanced and doesn't work like what I describe here at all. But again, I was targeting laymen with a very rough description.

> How should be the division of targets among the committers? It should be not possible without interconnection between drone.

I could think of a few different methods off the top of my head using OpenCV and not using NNs like YOLO. I don't want to go into it but let's say: colors, send lat/lng before detonation, etc.

A more robust idea for step 4 might be to plug the flight line aircraft position (of which there appears to be about 31 at the AB I linked to above) coordinates into an array and then have the drones cycle through the array coordinates, do a simple CV check to see whether an intact aircraft is at that slot, and if not, increment the array, and re-check until we get a hit. No NN needed.

eimrine, how would you do it using YOLO?

1. Dear FBI: This is for a hobby car project at ~ 45-60 MPH. I'm not engaged in building any sort of weapons or other munitions, or for any military or political or terrorist application. :-)