'Attacks will be fully autonomous': Russia, Ukraine race towards AI warfare
Advertisement “It’s not about a drone having AI in it, and then seeing something and striking,” Marina Miron, researcher at the defence studies department at King’s College London, said. “Rather, it’s the drone seeing something, communicating to a software complex which knows how to map the GPS coordinates on a live battlefield map, and notifying the closest artillery unit.”Referred to as reconnaissance-strike architecture, these unified battlefield management systems act like a central command. Ukraine is known to be developing its system, which it named DELTA.
- ▪Advertisement “It’s not about a drone having AI in it, and then seeing something and striking,” Marina Miron, researcher at the defence studies department at King’s College London, said.
- ▪“Rather, it’s the drone seeing something, communicating to a software complex which knows how to map the GPS coordinates on a live battlefield map, and notifying the closest artillery unit.”Referred to as reconnaissance-strike architecture,
- ▪Ukraine is known to be developing its system, which it named DELTA.
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News|Russia-Ukraine war‘Attacks will be fully autonomous’: Russia, Ukraine race towards AI warfareAutomated AI drones are just one component of an ultimate chain of destruction both sides are building.ListenListen (6 mins)SaveShare ‘Attacks will be fully autonomous’: Russia, Ukraine race towards AI warfare on social mediashare-nodesSharefacebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoDrones with some autonomous capabilities are already being deployed at scale by Russia and Ukraine [File: Daryna Naumova/EPA]By Federica Marsi and Mansur MirovalevPublished On 14 Sep 202614 Sep 2026Tetiana Bubynets collapsed on the asphalt after a Russian drone exploded at a gas station in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia.Despite the violent shockwave and blast of drone shrapnel…
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