🇺🇦🇷🇺🚨‼️ BOMBSHELL: Russia started using drones with AI image recognition.
This is a huge advantage because:
1) Electro Warfare systems get countered! The loss of connection to the pilot is not important, the drone acts autonomously and destroys the target.
2) The range increases dramatically, at least 2x. Due to obstacles and earth curvature the signal is lost when a drone comes close to the ground at range. Hence the pilot is not able to see anything close to the ground.
Now a pilot can fly far beyond current range, acquire a target and let the drone do the rest. Ignoring the loss of signal once the drone starts descending.
3) No need for trained and experienced pilots. At this point pilots just need to fly towards a region, turn on the autonomous mode and let the drone do its thing.
This will become obsolete as well, but now it is needed to ensure that no friendly fire occurs and not own troops are targeted.
Second problem right now is the usage of GPS spoofers that distort the navigation, hence the pilot needs to navigate by landmark and terrain. But cruise missiles already use terrain mapping, what can be integrated into drones to arrive at an area.
4) The target is hit with a higher precision, since the delay from the operator is removed.
Now the signal travels to the pilot, the pilot sees the picture and reacts, the signal travels back to the drone.
That introduces a significant delay, especially if the target is moving at higher speed, hitting it becomes hard.
But the drone now steers automatically without delay and reacts instantly to correct its course.
5) The drones have thermo version by now and AI targeting works through the thermo vision as well. Hence they work at night and can ignore some camouflage.
-> This is a big step in military development. Now troops can’t feel safe anymore at any range and under protection of Electronic Warfare signal jammers, also the current anti drone guns don’t work anymore since they’re small EWs.
Video: Example of Russian drone with AI targeting.
Pic: Ukrainian correspondent warns about Russian AI drones.
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This is a huge advantage because:
1) Electro Warfare systems get countered! The loss of connection to the pilot is not important, the drone acts autonomously and destroys the target.
2) The range increases dramatically, at least 2x. Due to obstacles and earth curvature the signal is lost when a drone comes close to the ground at range. Hence the pilot is not able to see anything close to the ground.
Now a pilot can fly far beyond current range, acquire a target and let the drone do the rest. Ignoring the loss of signal once the drone starts descending.
3) No need for trained and experienced pilots. At this point pilots just need to fly towards a region, turn on the autonomous mode and let the drone do its thing.
This will become obsolete as well, but now it is needed to ensure that no friendly fire occurs and not own troops are targeted.
Second problem right now is the usage of GPS spoofers that distort the navigation, hence the pilot needs to navigate by landmark and terrain. But cruise missiles already use terrain mapping, what can be integrated into drones to arrive at an area.
4) The target is hit with a higher precision, since the delay from the operator is removed.
Now the signal travels to the pilot, the pilot sees the picture and reacts, the signal travels back to the drone.
That introduces a significant delay, especially if the target is moving at higher speed, hitting it becomes hard.
But the drone now steers automatically without delay and reacts instantly to correct its course.
5) The drones have thermo version by now and AI targeting works through the thermo vision as well. Hence they work at night and can ignore some camouflage.
-> This is a big step in military development. Now troops can’t feel safe anymore at any range and under protection of Electronic Warfare signal jammers, also the current anti drone guns don’t work anymore since they’re small EWs.
Video: Example of Russian drone with AI targeting.
Pic: Ukrainian correspondent warns about Russian AI drones.
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What’s next in anti drone technology?
The autonomous drones will lead to development of more military camouflage.
1) The thermo signature needs to be hidden. There are already some “thermo cloaks”.
In the first video, you can see the second soldier running under a thermo cloak to throw a grenade into a Ukranian dugout.
But this such cloaks need to be sized up and advanced to camouflaging armored equipment and maybe even buildings as well.
2) The AI vision detection needs to be tricked. This is already possible in small scale, to avoid facial recognition, like the video 2 shows.
This needs to be adjusted to the current battle conditions and environment and sized up for equipment and potentially even structures, like command posts or tents.
-> Now imagine huge thermo cloaks with specific anti AI patterns that hide a whole tank or cannon.
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The autonomous drones will lead to development of more military camouflage.
1) The thermo signature needs to be hidden. There are already some “thermo cloaks”.
In the first video, you can see the second soldier running under a thermo cloak to throw a grenade into a Ukranian dugout.
But this such cloaks need to be sized up and advanced to camouflaging armored equipment and maybe even buildings as well.
2) The AI vision detection needs to be tricked. This is already possible in small scale, to avoid facial recognition, like the video 2 shows.
This needs to be adjusted to the current battle conditions and environment and sized up for equipment and potentially even structures, like command posts or tents.
-> Now imagine huge thermo cloaks with specific anti AI patterns that hide a whole tank or cannon.
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Russia is testing “interceptor drones”. Maybe that is a way to counter drones, you’ll have small “anti drone” drones on patrol.
Video:
Testing a 30mm anti-drone shotgun mounted on an interceptor drone.
The developer said that the device ensures hitting a target at a distance of up to 40 meters with a pellet mass of 200 g, providing a dense cloud of pellets with a spread of about 1.5 m.
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Video:
Testing a 30mm anti-drone shotgun mounted on an interceptor drone.
The developer said that the device ensures hitting a target at a distance of up to 40 meters with a pellet mass of 200 g, providing a dense cloud of pellets with a spread of about 1.5 m.
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FPV drones turned out to be extremely powerful weapons, like extremely precision guided artillery and the AI targeting is a significant challenge for soldiers at the front.
Shooting them down is extremely complicated, since they’re very small. Hence signal jamming was the best solution. But soon camouflage will be the next best protection.
Laser weapons are praised to be the solution to target such small targets, but none of the current developing laser weapons was conceptualized for such small targets. Because small FPV drones are a serious military thing since essentially 12 months.
So all weapons are developed to shoot down big drones like Bayraktar and cruise missiles.
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Shooting them down is extremely complicated, since they’re very small. Hence signal jamming was the best solution. But soon camouflage will be the next best protection.
Laser weapons are praised to be the solution to target such small targets, but none of the current developing laser weapons was conceptualized for such small targets. Because small FPV drones are a serious military thing since essentially 12 months.
So all weapons are developed to shoot down big drones like Bayraktar and cruise missiles.
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