Ukraine: robot wars are fast becoming a reality • FRANCE 24 English

Send drones, keep humans. Ukraine’s military increasingly lives by this credo. And when multiple drones can be operated by a single pilot, so much the better. We’re using two drones right now, but regularly we using about 10. And when we are talking about like automatic mode, there are couple of hundreds that we can operate at the same time. For now, the drones usually make their strikes manually. The pilot takes control of each one in turn while the others loiter, but they fly according to plans worked out using artificial intelligence. You select the target of interest or you select the area of interest and AI is building the path and if the connection to the pilot is jammed or lost, the drones can still complete the task. The flight controller and our system know what it should do and it will continue the mission anyway. [Music] Russian forces have been on the offensive in southeastern Ukraine all year, but their territorial gains have been modest. Outnumbered, Ukrainian forces are holding the line in large part thanks to their massive deployment of drones, both in the air and on the ground. The sign said, “We want to surrender.” So, we sent a Mavic drone to fly low and guide the enemy combatants to our positions. That way, we liberated some territory without risking any personnel, and we went down in history. This was the first ever confirmed instance of soldiers surrendering to a robot. It was after one of these unmanned buggies blew a hole in their dugout that the Russians raised the white flag with a second buggy closing in on them. Ukraine currently makes better land-based drones than Russia, Bar says, but any advantage is usually short-lived. In modern warfare, each side mirrors the other’s technology. Whatever our army introduces, the enemy will try to copy and use it too. And whatever the enemy invents, we try to make our own versions of it to use against them. In this arms race, the technology used by both sides is evolving at breakneck

Despite the diplomatic activity, Ukrainian soldiers on the frontline say they see no sign of any let-up in the Russian offensive. The frontline has moved only a little, but the battlefield has been transformed by the rapid development of new technologies, boosted all the more by the use of artificial intelligence. In this report, FRANCE 24 correspondent Gulliver Cragg explores how robot wars are fast becoming a reality.
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13 comments

  1. don't be fooled and glorify robots , the casualties are always humans, Ukraine will cease to exist, on this perishing earth

  3. If they going to use robots in human form it’s going to be revolutionary. But first they will need some billions from Europe 💶😉

  10. Not sure if people know the battery ife or payload of a quadcopter but you would never fly over an hour and then only carry a tiny load that would only serve to scare people not in the army

  12. and yet the worlds militaries are not ditching their conventional equipment are they? and you arent seeing a complete remake of forces either are you? only reason its so focused is because thats all ukraine has.

  13. and its ironic. earlier this week i heard the ukrainians were ditching land based drone programs entirely in favor of airborne types and then this…

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