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  "textContent": "Drones operating in a swarm can perform a range of different tasks and exchange information with one another. Up until now, civilian drone swarms are often controlled centrally via a mobile communications link. In the case of autonomous operations, this means that the individual drones are only able to communicate in a star topology via a central node—usually a mobile phone mast.",
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