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The strawberry optimization algorithm will solve the drone placement problem through parallelization. In addition, the authors deploy test suits that vary in size from small to large. The dataset consists of four categories with three problems each. Results indicate that strawberry optimizers outperform Genetic algorithms (GA) and particle swarm optimization algorithms (PSO) in the number of drones, convergence, and computation time. Furthermore, the proposed approach achieves the best solution in a finite number of steps. In small-scale problems, the performance of all algorithms is convergent. As the size of the data set increases, the superiority of Strawberry optimization algorithms becomes evident. 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