A HUNDRED METRES above a white Lada saloon, the drone locks onto its goal: pink lights blink to blue. AI takes over and the drone swoops in for its kill. The Lada is spared on the final second, with the drone simply two metres away. The mission is a check carried out in a subject exterior Kyiv to superb tune the system. But the know-how is already being deployed by dozens of Ukrainian models on the entrance line. “It’s one of the best feeling to see your drone enter a tiny opening in an enemy trench,” says Denys, an engineer at The Fourth Law, the Ukrainian agency which makes these autonomous drones. “I was a pacifist, however Russia’s battle has stripped me of that privilege.”
