{"id":9939,"date":"2026-06-13T12:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9939"},"modified":"2026-06-13T12:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:01:11","slug":"ukraines-one-time-test-used-fully-autonomous-drones-to-kill-russian-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9939","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s one-time test used fully autonomous drones to kill Russian soldiers"},"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 \/>\nJune 12, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Fully autonomous drones killed Russian soldiers during a battlefield test two years ago, according to a Ukrainian drone manufacturer. If true, the incident would represent another milestone in a war that has spurred unprecedented developments in military drones, robots, and AI-guided weaponry.<\/p>\n<p>The one-time test was revealed by Alexander Kokhanovskyy, CEO of the Ukrainian drone maker Aero Center, during an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2529849-fully-autonomous-drones-have-killed-human-soldiers-for-the-first-time\/\">interview with New Scientist<\/a> at a press event hosted by the Ukrainian embassy in London. Kokhanovskyy described the test\u2014which did not involve his current company Aero Center\u2014using quadcopter drones that were preprogrammed to fly to a front-line area before activating an AI-powered \u201cTerminator mode\u201d that would seek out and attack any target in the given area.<\/p>\n<p>There was apparently no video feed or anything else to show what the \u201cTerminator\u201d drones targeted and attacked. But Kokhanovskyy told New Scientist that human-piloted drones sent to check out the aftermath found \u201ca couple\u201d of dead Russian soldiers, which led to the conclusion that the fully autonomous drones had killed them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/06\/ukraines-one-time-test-used-fully-autonomous-drones-to-kill-russian-soldiers\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/06\/ukraines-one-time-test-used-fully-autonomous-drones-to-kill-russian-soldiers\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/06\/ukraines-one-time-test-used-fully-autonomous-drones-to-kill-russian-soldiers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Hsu &bull; June 12, 2026 Fully autonomous drones killed Russian soldiers during a battlefield test two years ago, according to a Ukrainian drone manufacturer. If true, the incident would represent another milestone in a war that has spurred unprecedented developments in military drones, robots, and AI-guided weaponry. The one-time test was revealed by Alexander<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9939\" 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-9939","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\/9939","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=9939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}