AI Helps Ukrainian Defense Forces Track Thousands of Enemy Targets

23 September, 2024 Illustrative photo of the work of artificial intelligence. Photo: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine The Defense Forces are automatically detecting 12,000 pieces of enemy equipment every week using the Avengers artificial intelligence platform.

This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The Avengers platform was developed by the Innovation Center of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The result is achieved by automatically analyzing video from drones and stationary cameras.

Due to the AI platform, operators can make decisions faster and more efficiently, and the risk of errors due to fatigue is reduced. This integration is already successfully operating in the VEZHA streaming module of the DELTA situational awareness and battlefield management system.

In Ukraine, the Griselda system was developed on the basis of artificial intelligence, 2023. Illustrative photo

"The Avengers platform, developed by the Defense Ministry's Innovation Center, is unique in the world in terms of the amount of video data on enemy vehicles.

We continue to develop Avengers and other AI solutions to provide our military with an advantage. In the future, we plan to expand the platform's cloud capabilities and integrate AI solutions on drones," stated Kateryna Chernohorenko, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine for Digitalization. The Innovation Center continues to train the AI model of the Avengers platform on new data.

This allows to improve the quality of recognition of various enemy vehicles, even in difficult conditions, such as tanks hidden in forests or armored personnel carriers moving on dirty roads. In early September, Militarnyi reported that a tender had already been launched on the Prozorro public procurement platform to purchase the first 10,000 FPV drones using artificial intelligence technologies for the Ukrainian army.

Object recognition by the Vector UAV visual surveillance sensor. Illustrative image: Quantum-Systems

Artificial intelligence for target detection in the US

Palantir Technologies Inc. has recently won a £100 million contract to expand access to artificial intelligence for target recognition for the U.S.

Army. The contract will expand access to the Maven Smart System for all five branches of the U.S. military, covering tens of thousands of service members.

Artificial intelligence software recognizes objects detected by the system.

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Palantir's Maven Smart System is part of the Maven project, an artificial intelligence system developed by the U.S. Department of Defense. It is designed to process images and video from drones and automatically detect potential targets.

Maven combines data from various surveillance and intelligence systems to identify areas of interest.