In Latvia, it is speculated that Ukrainian drones may have veered off course due to AI navigation
In Latvia, authorities are considering the possibility that a flaw in the drones’ navigation system may have caused them to crash into empty oil tanks. This refers to a potential “AI component” in the drones’ course programming that could have caused them to deviate from their route; however, there is currently no official confirmation of this theory.
According to LSM, this assumption was expressed by Modris Kairišs, head of the Unmanned Systems Competence Center at the Latvian Armed Forces.
Kairišs’s comment is cited in an explanatory article on how Russian electronic warfare systems could knock Ukrainian strike drones off course, causing them to fly into the Baltic states when they were not supposed to.
Kairišs noted that the identical impact points of the stray drones that flew into the oil depot in Rēzekne on May 7 suggest that the drones have artificial intelligence elements in their programming.
“Long-range drones have AI elements. They can ‘scout out’ targets they’ve been programmed for. So this could explain why they crashed into the oil terminal’s tanks, which visually resemble targets on Russian territory,” said Modris Kairišs.
No official confirmation has been provided on this matter yet; this assumption is presented as one of several possible explanations.
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