{"id":14588,"date":"2026-08-04T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14588"},"modified":"2026-08-04T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:00:40","slug":"us-companys-ai-lets-ukraines-cheap-kamikaze-drones-track-targets-on-their-own-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14588","title":{"rendered":"US company\u2019s AI lets Ukraine\u2019s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong><br \/>\n                    Jeremy Hsu<br \/>\n                <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nAugust 3, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Ukrainian drone operators have destroyed many Russian armored vehicles on the ground and even military helicopters in midair using $400 Shrike drones with explosive payloads. Now thousands of such drones are getting upgraded with an AI system capable of autonomously tracking and homing in on moving targets.<\/p>\n<p>In mid-July, the Ukrainian military began receiving Shrike drones made by the Ukrainian company SkyFall equipped with AI-powered autonomy hardware and software developed by the US company Auterion. The companies plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/auterion.com\/auterion-and-skyfall-to-ship-50000-shrike-strike-drones-to-ukraines-front-lines\/\">deliver 50,000 drones<\/a> equipped with <a href=\"https:\/\/auterion.com\/product\/skynode-s\/\">Auterion\u2019s Skynode S<\/a> strike kits in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>That allows human operators to manually fly the Shrike first-person view (FPV) drones into a battlefield area, designate a target up to half a mile away and then \u201cflip the switch to turn it into fire-and-forget terminal guidance mode,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/meierlorenz\/\">Lorenz Meier<\/a>, co-founder and CEO of Auterion, told Ars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/08\/ukraines-drones-get-ai-upgrades-for-kamikaze-strikes-future-swarm-attacks\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/08\/ukraines-drones-get-ai-upgrades-for-kamikaze-strikes-future-swarm-attacks\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/08\/ukraines-drones-get-ai-upgrades-for-kamikaze-strikes-future-swarm-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Hsu &bull; August 3, 2026 Ukrainian drone operators have destroyed many Russian armored vehicles on the ground and even military helicopters in midair using $400 Shrike drones with explosive payloads. Now thousands of such drones are getting upgraded with an AI system capable of autonomously tracking and homing in on moving targets. In mid-July,<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14588\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}