Ukraine’s innovative use of aerial drones has helped boost its defenses against Russia. Now, Ukraine is looking to develop a more robust aircraft of its own.
Fedorov says Ukraine’s government is creating financial incentives to help domestic companies produce more drones themselves, with the goal of creating a thriving domestic drone-making industry. “For civil startups, we have set up an Innovations Development Fund,” he says. “And in a few weeks we will launch a separate Defense Tech Cluster.”
That cluster will help military businesses with financing and other assistance, as Ukraine looks to parlay its war efforts into a nimble, high-tech defense industry. Since the start of the war, Ukraine has seen a tenfold increase in domestic military startups, Fedorov says—a new demonstration that necessity is the mother of invention.
He adds that foreign companies, especially cloud businesses and defense firms, are welcome to collaborate. “Ukraine is the best opportunity to implement new technologies into life and see it in the field,” he says. Being an active battlefield is bad for many kinds of business, but for others it can be a plus.
The conflict has also seen new kinds of military autonomy tested for the first time. With Russia launching large numbers of missiles from vessels in the Black Sea, Ukraine has developed small drone boats capable of carrying explosives. Russia has retaliated with its own naval drone attacks. “We are really improving our navy drones,” Fedorov says. “We are creating a fleet of them and they are performing” in the Black Sea.
Ukraine is also looking to develop AI software that can make operating drones more efficient and less dependent on humans. “The naval drones can be used both automatically and with the help of the operator,” Fedorov says. “Right now, artificial intelligence is used for target recognition.”
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