🇺🇦🔝 Ukraine has used AI-based drone for the first time, — Minister of Digital

🇺🇦🔝 Ukraine has used AI-based drone for the first time, — Minister of Digital Transformation Fedorov.

The drone delivers two FPV strike drones to a distance of up to 300 km. They are able to autonomously find and hit targets: from enemy aircraft to air defense and critical infrastructure facilities.

If the distance is up to 100 km, the drone returns for reuse.

The cost of one mission is $10,000. For comparison: launching a missile costs 300–500 times more.

And all this — without GPS. The SmartPilot system uses visual-inertial navigation, navigates using cameras, and LIDAR only enhances accuracy. Artificial intelligence independently recognizes and selects the target.