If the conflict in Ukraine has made one thing clear, it is that open war has changed its rules since World War II. As reported in, the introduction and rapid development of the drone as a weapon represents a radical change in the tactics of infantry, which now accounts for the vast majority of casualties recorded in the conflict.
As the publication states, the Ukrainian front is, at the moment, an area 10 miles wide (16 kilometers) and 750 miles long (1,207 kilometers), covered in sensors where anything that moves in sight is killed in a matter of minutes. For this reason, it has been necessary to advance in thermal and spectral camouflage or to address vulnerabilities.
In the last few days, Mykhailo FedorovUkrainian Defense Minister, posted a video on social media highlighting the “brutal” horror of the current war. In them, consulted by the media, a lot of first-person Ukrainian images were shown with drones that were aimed individually at Russian soldiers, “each very aware of his impending destiny”: “some trying to escape the drone, others preparing for the explosion, others simply begging to be forgiven.”
“It is light years away from everything I experienced. It is a brutal and distressing film,” he says in statements on his social networks collected in the media outlet El General.
Right at the bottom of the images he shares, he summarizes the power of this type of war. According to him, they died only in April 35,000 Russian soldiers. A figure that represents approximately 50% of the active British Army, and almost seven times the number of troops the Army has lost in combat in all operations since 1945.
The use of AI
The use of artificial intelligence in these devices. Intelligence and reconnaissance sources find and identify the target, and then a decision is made whether or not to prosecute that target, taking into account broader elements such as collateral damage and the legality of the attack. This is a process that takes time.
Using AI in this process will, or already has, accelerated infinitely with sensors scanning a battlefield, processing terabytes of information to make an instant decision. However, in the armies of the West it is the humans who have yet to make the final decision.
