Thursday, March 26, 2026

How Autonomous Drone Warfare Is Emerging in the Ukraine

Recommendable!

Near future wars will be fought by remotely controlled or autonomous drones and robots!

Caveat: I did not read the entire, long article.

"Rise of the Autonomous Attack Drones

AI-enabled drones and anti-drone tech developed by Ukraine and Russia are remaking the battlefield."

"... “swarms of autonomous drones carrying other autonomous drones to protect them against autonomous drones, which are trying to intercept them, controlled by AI agents overseen by a human general somewhere.” ...

flotillas of autonomous submarines, each carrying hundreds of drones, suddenly emerging off the coast of California or Great Britain and discharging their cargoes en masse to the sky ...

Ukrainian troops first began using drones for battlefield surveillance, but within a few months they figured out how to strap explosives onto them and turn them into effective, low-cost killing machines. ...

Since then, The Fourth Law has dispatched “more than thousands” of autonomy modules to troops in eastern Ukraine (it declines to give a more specific figure), which can be retrofitted on existing drones to take over navigation during the final approach to the target. ... the autonomy modules, worth around US $50, increase the drone-strike success rate by up to four times that of purely operator-controlled drones. ...

thousands of developers, including some who relocated from Western countries, who are applying their skills and other resources to advancing the drone technology that is the defining characteristic of the war in Ukraine. This eclectic group of startups and founders includes Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, whose company Swift Beat is churning out autonomous drones and modules for Ukrainian forces. ..."

How Autonomous Drone Warfare Is Emerging in Ukraine - IEEE Spectrum


An interceptor drone, part of the U.S. MEROPS defensive system, is tested in Poland on 18 November 2025.


A fixed-wing drone is tested in Ukraine in April 2025.


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