"There is no counteraction to this now": Director of Aerial Reconnaissance Support Centre on new threat from Russian drones

Russia relies on automatic optical navigation of its drones, and there is no systematic counteraction to this now.

Source: Mariia Berlinska, a veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war who runs Victory Drones, a volunteer project of the Dignitas charitable foundation, and is director of the Aerial Reconnaissance Support Centre, in an interview with Ukrainska Pravda

Quote: "We lost so much time so incompetently that now the Russians are way ahead of us.

The more they automate their systems, the more they develop 'drone swarms' and automatic optical navigation (when the drone itself recognises the target and makes the decision to hit it), when there are thousands of such drones flying, we will be forced to retreat dozens of kilometres in a matter of weeks."

Details: To maintain Ukraine's parity on the battlefield, Berlinska is calling on President Zelenskyy to establish an Engineering Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief as soon as possible and ask leading Ukrainian drone manufacturers to get involved.

Background:

• Russia is trying to reverse-engineer the Ukrainian SeaBaby surface drone from debris in order to use it against Ukraine.
• Russia is also covering Shahed drones with carbon fibre or repainting them black to make it harder for Ukrainian air defence to shoot them down.

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