Russia says it is developing AI-based air defense systems, expects results in November

Russia says it is developing AI-based air defense systems, expects results in November

Russia is developing new air defense systems based on artificial intelligence technologies, the country’s defense minister, Andrei Belousov, announced on Monday. The official said it was one of the priority projects the country aims to complete before the end of the year, against the backdrop of mounting Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian territory.

“We are actively working on it, I mean air defenses. It is one of the seven projects we must complete before the end of the year. We will have the results in November,” Belousov said in a meeting with military correspondents, according to the Russian state agency TASS. The minister held that the situation at the front changes “roughly every two or three months,” which, he said, forces Moscow to adapt its systems frequently.

Among the measures, Belousov mentioned the creation of mobile air-defense groups equipped with FPV (“first-person view”) interceptor drones. “These are mobile groups armed above all with FPV interceptor drones. We are actively implementing this,” he said. He added that since April Russia has been working on a “unified information environment” to strengthen its early-warning systems, through computer tools that, as he described them, allow targets to be identified at the tactical level and combat actions to be coordinated.

The minister said tablets connected to that system had been delivered to troops, including platoon and combat-vehicle commanders, linking them with command posts, radars and other units. “In all military groupings we have created layered air-defense systems” to repel drone attacks, he said. The official’s claims, released through a state outlet, could not be independently verified.

The announcement comes at a time when drone attacks have intensified on both sides of the front. Ukraine has stepped up its incursions with unmanned aircraft against military and industrial facilities on Russian territory in recent months, while Russia maintains regular drone and missile strikes on Ukrainian cities. Drones have become one of the central tools of the war that began with the Russian invasion of 2022, and are used by both sides for reconnaissance, logistics and direct attack. The development of defenses capable of neutralizing them —from electronic systems to interceptor drones— has become a priority for both armies.

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