Up to 12 British Firms to Train Drone-Swarm AI on Ukraine's Combat Data
The first competition under the UK-Ukraine AI Partnership gives British developers a scarce training asset while the underlying data stays inside Ukraine's secure perimeter.
Intelic's Nexus software links radars, cameras and interceptor drones from different makers on one screen in Ukraine, and the Netherlands is paying more than €30 million to build its own drone force on it.
The first competition under the UK-Ukraine AI Partnership gives British developers a scarce training asset while the underlying data stays inside Ukraine's secure perimeter.
Ukraine has logged more than 100,000 unmanned ground vehicle missions this year, and its procurement agency has just started buying whole classes of ground robots to ministry-written specifications.
Ukraine's Defence Ministry says more than 70 AI and computer-vision systems already strike targets and that every frontline drone should carry machine vision, with terminal guidance that holds a target after Russian jamming cuts the link.
Pan-European 4.5-generation canard-delta multirole fighter — the air superiority and strike backbone of four NATO air forces, in service since 2003.