Ukraine Has A Truck-Hunting A.I. Drone. It Needs Very Little Help From Its Operators.
The Swift Beat Hornet appears to communicate via a Starlink-boosted mesh radio network.
Ukrainian drone units are striking harder, more often and deeper across the Russian logistical zone stretching more than 100 miles past the disputed gray zone in Ukraine.
“The intensity of attacks on munitions storage aligns with observed reductions in Russian artillery usage, while fuel-related targeting suggests a parallel effort to constrain mechanized operations by disrupting supply chains behind the front and most importantly politically on the home front,” Ukrainian analysis group Tochnyi explained.
For the Ukrainian national guard’s 1st Azov Corps, which holds the defensive line between the gray zone and the free cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast, that means striking the highway threading from the occupied Black Sea port of Mariupol to the Donetsk gray zone, 90 miles to the north.
