Ukraine's Autonomous Killer Drones Defeat Electronic Warfare

The far-reaching operation was being hailed as the most inventive and bold of the war so far. Indeed, IEEE Spectrum has been regularly covering the ascent of Ukraine’s military drone programs, both offensive and defensive , and for air marine , and land missions. In this article, originally posted on April 6, we described another bold Ukrainian drone initiative, which was applying artificial intelligence-based navigational software to enable killer drones to navigate to targets even in the presence of heavy jamming After the Estonian startup KrattWorks dispatched the first batch of its Ghost Dragon ISR quadcopters to Ukraine in mid-2022, the company’s officers thought they might have six months or so before they’d need to reconceive the drones in response to new battlefield realities. The 46-centimeter-wide flier was far more robust than the hobbyist-grade UAVs that came to define the early days of the drone war against Russia. But within a scant three months, the Estonian team realiz ... Read full article.