The generals in the Ukraine War have ceased to be human. There are drones giving drones before attacking

The technological jump that is being given in the Ukraine War exceeds any forecast to a Unexpected speed. Of machines capturing and prisoners He went to drones attacking on your own In weeks. Now, these robots crews capable of coordinating on their own have a devastating weapon that makes them more unpredictable: an AI capable of generating military controls between algorithms, and several programs that multiply their scope.

The jump of the swarms. Yes, the swarms of driven drones by artificial intelligence They are moving from promise to operational practice: software as Nemyx, from Auterionconverts compatible platforms into a coordinated force that maneuver, decides and attacks collectively to saturate defenses.

In fact, United States will send 33,000 “attack kits” Updateable to Ukraine, a symptom that armies assume that intelligent volume (many cheap, connected and freelancer) can tip the balance on the battlefield.

How they work. Actually, the key is not a “more capable” drone, but many drones that cooperate Like an organism: They share information, roles are distributed (one being the closest to a “general”), they reconfigure before interference and elude defenses with coordinated routes and attack times.

Thus, a single operator controls multiple vectors, decision -making is automated at the tactical level and the resulting “precision mass” overwhelms radars, missiles and anti -aircraft artillery with whiter than they can manage.

The Ukrainian ecosystem. Had the weekend The Financial Times than auterion has presented his “drone swarm strike engine” (Nemyx) as an app on his operating system to add drones to swarm with A simple updatewhile Helsing (next to Systematic) announces swarm capabilities directed by Ia.

In parallel, Ukrainian companies Like Swarmer They claim to have intervened in 82,000 operations, with software that allows a group to approach Russian positions and choose autonomously The time to attack, materializing a trend initiated in 2016 with microdrones launched by F-18 and accelerated by Chinese demonstrations of great swarms since 2017.

The Ukrainian advantage. Ukraine has A massive file operational video (including a classified base called Universal Military Dataset) that feeds models of autonomy and learning, an asset that its companies consider decisive.

In addition, the opening of software and standards allows Integrate platforms In “weeks or days”, not in “months or years”, lowering the entrance barrier for diverse manufacturers and shortening the innovation cycle against adversaries.

Of the waves to learning. For his part, Russia It has improved Its effectiveness grouping long -range Shahed attacks, but that looks more like coordinated waves than a “intelligent” swarm.

The new generation introduces Learning and coordination Distributed, eliminates the dependence of a single communications relay and allows each drone to adjust its behavior in real time, so saturation is not only quantitative but also tactically adaptive.

The Russian jump. Plus: Russia has announced An advance that could transform war with drones: thanks to the orbit systemdeveloped by the Cust consortium (a network of More than 200 startups That has broken with the slowness of the traditional defense industry), the FPV operators would no longer have to approach the front.

Instead of risking artillery or kamikaze drones, they could control devices From hundreds of kilometerseven from Moscow, while first -line soldiers only briefly display drones from backpacks.

Train an hour. The system uses artificial intelligence algorithms and neural networks for Identify, track and attack Objectives, making the operator more than a pilot. According to their designers, the necessary training passes four weeks to just an hour, a jump that is real democratizes the lethal piloting capacity.

Technology would allow Russia to maintain its rhythm of massive drones (more than 30,000 delivered in 2024) at the same time that protects its most valuable staff, operators, considered even more important than tanquistas in the Ukrainian points system.

Skvorets evolution. They remembered in Forbes that Cust has demonstrated industrial pragmatism: from the basic skvorets, with loads of 3 to 4 kilos and reach of more than 10 km, versions have emerged With thermal cameras, reusable recognition models, the Skvorets-Z variant with automatic objective block and the skvorets pro with such automated functions that it can be handled by a pilot without experience.

They have even developed a Naval model launched From robotic vessels, which shows that the concept of remote control was already mature before orbit. In other words, if Orbita works as statedthe roles change: there will be no operators in improvised basements near the front, but in remote, invisible and untouchable control centers. Drones could be thrown by infantry soldiers, unmanned land vehicles or autonomous vessels, while the attack decision is validated from rear.

Ethics and legality. Expanding the framework of all these advances, the power of all these systems tension the principle of significant human control. In the case of the Ukrainian side, European developers They underline that the operator maintains the authorization of whites and the supervision of lethality, in line with doctrines and limitations of international law, but the border between tactical automation and full autonomy It is blurred As the algorithms assume more flight decisions, objective allocation and attack synchronization.

For its part, in the Russian case Orbit announces A future where “Bots on Earth” will replace the “Boots on Earth”, where FPV duels will be fought Between guided machines at a distance and not between nearby combatants. In an immediate horizon, the classic operator by handing a drone a few kilometers from the enemy might seem as obsolete and exposed as a cavalry rider in the middle of the battle of the 21st century.

Image | National Guard of Ukraine/Twitter, TrydenceCust

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