Frightened of "smart" drones in Ukraine: US urgently create weapons against AI

Chinese UAVs with artificial intelligence are increasingly threatening the country's safety, according to Pentagon. The US Department of Defense believes that drones with artificial intelligence pose a great danger to military equipment and are looking for ways to neutralize them. This was reported by the C4ISRNET media on Wednesday, July 5.

The reason for increasing concern to the US Defense Ministry has been a situation where the inexpensive shock drone of Chinese production was used by Ukrainian military against the Russian T-90 tank. As a result, the drone for $ 2,000 destroyed armored vehicles, which costs millions of dollars. In view of this, US Deputy Defense Minister Kathlene Holland Gicks has addressed developers who work in the defense industry.

She asked to help invent technologies that would help protect the way of military equipment from the potential harmful effects of "smart" drones. GIKS believes that growing popularity and accessibility, including Chinese UAVs, threatens the country's defense in air, terrestrial, underground, water and underwater spheres. The deputy chairman of the Pentagon also voiced the criteria for future antitrone weapons.

She must be able: in addition, according to a published statement, the US Defense Ministry needs: Recall that in early July it became known that the Chinese combat drone Scorpion A became more deadly. One of the main key points in the modernization of this UAV was the addition of three new pendants to attach different ammunition - now seven. Also at this time, the media wrote that the Ukrainian military invented an "invisible" land drone.