Ukraine developing ‘unstoppable’ AI-powered attack drone with Western backing

by TheTelegraph

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  1. ***The Telegraph reports:***

    Ukraine is developing artificially intelligent drones that will be harder for Russia to shoot down, The Telegraph can disclose.

    The push to create an image recognition targeting system, which can [autonomously hunt and strike targets](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/02/ukraine-flies-explosives-iranian-drone-factory-russia/), is backed by more than £200 million in Western finance from a UK-led drone coalition.

    Kateryna Chernohorenko, the  Ukrainian deputy defence minister, said the system would make one-way attack drones less susceptible to Russian electronic blockers and allow pilots to operate them further from the front line.

    The official, who leads Kyiv’s negotiations on drones, said it was being developed as a “joint venture” alongside members of the £1.2 billion scheme.

    “The great challenge is the last mile of engagement taking into account that more and more individual [electronic warfare systems](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/08/drone-attack-major-nuclear-accident-russia-ukraine/) are available,” Ms Chernohorenko said.

    “Our drones should be more effective and should be guided towards the target without any operators.

    “It should be based on visual navigation. We also call it ‘last-mile targeting’, homing in according to the image.”

    **Read more here:** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/08/ukraine-developing-unstoppable-ai-powered-attack-drone/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/08/ukraine-developing-unstoppable-ai-powered-attack-drone/)

  2. Great! But frankly, some of the lower tech drones Ukraine is deploying already seem ‘unstoppable’!

  3. Within the article it mentions that the US have publicly condemned the drone attacks within Russia…. I can’t remember seeing any condemnations? Anyone?

  4. This feels like clickbait.

    Unstoppable with EW. Stoppable with a bullet. Still a very powerful weapon that will I’m sure be a useful tool in Ukraine’s arsenal.

  5. I hope they’re training it with images of the Kerch bridge

  6. Soon we will see AI fighting AI.

    The loser will suffer from the inhumanity of AI.

  7. What’s funny is that the us thinks they have a say in the war with what ukraine bomb when they don’t put any money in the game. It’s the start of us losing geopolitical say and Europeans having more say as they realise ukraine should be able to target what they need to. Maybe these trump fan boys will realise that it will have a major effect on the us and they will send ukraine the funds because reality is trump has nothing to threaten ukraine with now I.e funds so ukraine should be able to target what they want.

  8. And I for one believe them, they are the cutting edge of killer drone dev. Thank’s for the training Russia I guess? 🇺🇦

  9. Nothing is unstoppable, there is no wonder weapon…besides an ICBM with a nuclear warhead.

  10. Can’t wait for it to get to 3 miles out and convert from air plane to missile- drop the big wings, deploy stubbies, and light the candle at the back:))

  11. I want to see swarms of these things (along with helium ballon decoys), completely overwhelm Russian air defenses all at once.

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