Ukraine is developing AI-powered missiles as more than 200 companies join effort
AI-powered missiles are being developed in Ukraine (photo: militarnyi.com)
Ukrainian companies are actively working to develop AI-powered missiles, with more than 200 manufacturers involved in the process, Brave1 CEO Andrii Hrytseniuk said, according to Business Insider.
"AI was initially deployed at scale in drones. It's not that fast — it's sufficient for the drones, but missiles require much higher speeds," Hrytseniuk said.
According to him, artificial intelligence is now "increasingly being integrated into missile systems as well." At the same time, he also stressed that AI development has not yet reached the scale of the hundreds of solutions already implemented in the drone sector.
He also stressed that more than 200 Ukrainian companies are already developing AI-based components for missiles, drones, radars, and other systems.
At the end of July, Denys Shtilerman of Fire Point showed a photo of a nighttime launch of a Ukrainian missile, explaining that the FP-7 is a low-cost analogue of the American ATACMS system with a range of up to 200 km, while the more powerful FP-9 modification is capable of striking targets at a distance of 800–850 km.
At the time, it was also reported that the FP-7 could see combat use as early as this year, while the company's ballistic missiles are in the final stages of testing.
Also, in early August, it became known that Fire Point had developed its own turbojet engine, which could be used for the Flamingo cruise missile. According to the company's CEO, Iryna Terekh, creating the engine proved to be a more difficult task than developing the missile itself.
