The American defense company “Auterion“ (Auterion) announced on Monday that it will provide Ukraine with 33,000 AI drone guidance kits, funded by a $50 million Pentagon contract, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
According to the company, the kits allow hand-piloted strike drones to track and autonomously engage targets up to one kilometer away.
Kiev, which has announced it will buy 4.5 million small drones by 2025, is looking for ways to make them invulnerable to increasingly powerful electronic warfare and battlefield jamming.
Drones that use AI to recognize targets in the final leg of their flight are one solution being implemented.
„We have already sent thousands of our AI strike systems to Ukraine, but this new deployment increases our support "more than ten times," Lorenz Mayer, CEO of “Auterion“, said in a company press release.
A Ukrainian official said last year that Ukraine had dozens of drone guidance systems enhanced with artificial intelligence.
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said its forces had taken control of the villages of Boykivka and Belhiyka in eastern Ukraine.
Reuters noted that it could not independently confirm the information about the situation on the battlefield.