  In the era of cutting-edge autonomous systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(UAVs) are becoming an essential part of the solutions for numerous complex
challenges. This paper evaluates UAV peer-to-peer telemetry communication,
highlighting its security vulnerabilities and explores a transition to a
het-erogeneous multi-hop mesh all-to-all communication architecture to increase
inter-swarm connectivity and reliability. Additionally, we suggest a symmetric
key agreement and data encryption mechanism implementation for inter - swarm
communication, to ensure data integrity and confidentiality without
compromising performance.
