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A German research project that simulated fights between fleets of uncrewed maritime systems has found that results depended less on the number or quality of individual platforms than on how their capabilities worked together. It also found that tactics produced by large language models (LLMs) usually lost to tactics from specialised AI agents, according to hartpunkt’s report by Lars Hoffmann. The results were shown on Thursday, 5 November, at the GhostPlay@SEA Demo Day in Berlin. The project is a dtec.bw research effort led by the German AI company 21strategies, working with Helmut Schmidt University and industry partners TKMS ATLAS ELEKTRONIK, Hensoldt, Rheinmetall Defence Electronics and Borchert Consulting & Research. Over the past few years, the team ran more than 5,000 simulations of maritime scenarios. Each run changed one...