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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms have been foreseen to play an important role in military applications in the future, wherein they will be frequently subjected to different distur-bances and destructions such as attacks and equipment faults. Therefore, a sophisticated robustness evaluation mechanism is of considerable importance for the reliable functioning of the UAV swarms. However, their complex characteristics and irregular dynamic evolution make them extre-mely challenging and uncertain to evaluate the robustness of such a system. In this paper, a complex network theory-based robustness evaluation method for a UAV swarming system is proposed. This method takes into account the dynamic evolution of UAV swarms, including dynamic reconfigura-tion and information correlation. The paper analyzes and models the aforementioned dynamic evo-lution and establishes a comprehensive robustness metric and two evaluation strategies. The robustness evaluation method and algorithms considering dynamic reconfiguration and informa-tion correlation are developed. Finally, the validity of the proposed method is verified by conduct-ing a case study analysis. The results can further provide some guidance and reference for the robust design, mission planning and decision-making of UAV swarms.