[dji4321234]

There's enormous adoption of autonomous drones.

A large number of front-line FPV drones are equipped with automated last-second targeting systems like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coUwYOyIoAU , based on Chinese NPU IP / CCTV systems and readily available as full solutions on Aliexpress. The basic idea is that if the drone loses control or video link due to EW countermeasures, it can continue to the last target.

Loitering and long-range fixed wing reconnaissance drones have been fully autonomous since the beginning. One common recent technique taken from traditional "big" militaries is the use of loitering autonomous high altitude base stations with Starlink or LTE on them providing coverage to the battlefield below, since it's much harder to jam things when they are flying high above the ground.

[stackedinserter]

You have no idea what you're talking about and your video is just a demo from some chinese account. There are tons of footage from drone units, from both sides, and they are all old school analog FPV until the very last moment.

[dji4321234]

https://x.com/sternenko/status/1770348417102819563

Rather, it is you who does not know what you are talking about. Here is a real frontline video characterizing these systems. Yes, it is all still analog FPV. The lock-on system selects a target and overlays the reticle on the analog video. As the FPV flies closer and encounters the jamming from the target, the lock-on unit ensures it is still a hit.

These have fallen out of favor as fiber optic is a little easier to get than it used to be but they are still in wide use.

[stackedinserter]

Your link literally says:

> Технологія нова, потребує вдосконалення і масштабування.

> Eng: "The technology is new and will need improvement and scaling"

I don't understand what you're trying to prove. They do exist and I never said they don't. They keep popping up here and there, mainly working in demo conditions against static contrast targets.

My point was that so far, these things are just curiosities with very limited usage and there's no mass adoption. Maybe some, but there's some of everything in this war. All the main uav units that I'm aware of use manually controlled fpvs and there are reasons for that.

> These have fallen out of favor as fiber optic is a little easier

Oh gosh.

[dji4321234]

> My point was that so far, these things are just curiosities with very limited usage and there's no mass adoption.

Make that point, then! Nothing in your original comment suggested this, just hostile dismissal.

Now that you’ve written a more substantive comment I think we actually agree overall. Most operations in the Ukraine-Russia war are manual piloting. Autonomy is over-hyped overall so far. However! A large number of autonomous systems have still been deployed and interest in autonomy is only growing. Both things can be true at the same time.

> Oh gosh.

Come on, read the whole sentence please. Lock on targeting modules are absolutely being superseded by fiber optic as it becomes “easier” to acquire than it used to be.

https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/battlefield-ai-rev... was posted by a sibling commenter and is a fairly accurate summary to my knowledge, including a substantiation of the notion that depending on how you look at it, lock on modules were a stop-gap before fiber became available or fiber is a stop-gap before good autonomy becomes widespread.

[stackedinserter]

"OTOH there's no mass adoption of autonomous drones after 3+ years of real active war between two technologically advanced nations."

That's what I literally said, what part if it you did not understand?

Do some research, on FO drones too and just stop embarrass yourself.