The air defense systems consist of automated towers that use machine guns to shoot down incoming drones. Yuri Ihnat, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, told the newspaper that artificial intelligence is used to calculate the drones’ flight paths.
Machine vision is used to shoot them down. Artificial intelligence makes it possible to combat even jet-powered drones, Ihnat says.
Ukraine has recently struggled to find effective countermeasures against newer Russian jet-powered drones, which are significantly faster than older propeller-driven ones.
