Inside Ukraine's Azov Drone R&D: The Engineer Building AI Weapons 18 km From the Front Line | Alexander Palamarchuk
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In a podcast, Alexander Palamarchuk, an engineer with Ukraine's Azov Brigade, is interviewed from his research and development office 18 kilometers from the front line.
He explains how Ukraine has evolved drones with AI guidance from homemade reconnaissance systems developed in 2014 to today's systems being tested in actual combat. A major challenge is that Russia constantly jams the drones on various radio frequencies, forcing his unit to develop new frequency bands between 100 and 3,000 megahertz to find uninterrupted channels. According to Palamarchuk, what distinguishes today's AI drones from fully autonomous lethal weapons is a critical gap: AI can already recognize vehicles and people with high accuracy, but cannot yet reliably determine whether a recognized target is military or civilian. He estimates this gap will close in approximately two years.
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