Ukrainian and Russian drone developers are in a race to create autonomous First Person View (FPV) attack drones that are resistant to radio jamming. Ukrainian activist Serhii Sternenko shared a video of a drone developed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces that successfully struck a Russian tank under electronic warfare suppression. Machine vision enables drones to track targets automatically, immune to jamming, Forbes reported.
Sternenko aims to raise 50 million hryvnia ($1.28 million) to scale up drone development, targeting over 1,300 drones, including both quadcopters and fixed-wing models. Autonomous attack drones, like the Saker Scout, have been deployed in Ukraine’s war, identifying and attacking Russian targets independently. Russian efforts include developing a homing version of the Ovod drone and enhancing automatic guidance systems for drones.
Both Ukraine and Russia are heavily investing in this technology, looking to gain an advantage in the development of autonomous FPV attack drones.
