but we will see each other soon , thank you very much, marta oliarnyk, tantin borkovskii worked live in the studio, and you take care of yourself, be sure to respond to the air alarm signals, you yourself see what is happening now, and take care of yourself, our colleagues will continue to work for you, see you soon. greetings to all viewers of espresso and at once about the most important thing for this hour: two people were injured due to an enemy attack on the city of semenivka in chernihiv oblast. one wounded person was hospitalized, the regional military administration was informed. russian invaders hit the city with three controlled air bombs, destroyed the cultural center. many residential

buildings were also damaged in the afternoon in the novgorod-siverskyi district, a russian drone targeted a minibus with passengers, three injured. three people died as a result of the russian attack on zaporozhye. among them is an eight-year-old girl and her father, as well as a 62-year-old trolley bus driver, who was targeted by the enemy at the hydroelectric dam. several, the number of wounded in the city has increased to 20, said the head of the region, ivan fedorov. in general, the occupiers fired almost 20 rockets into the city. more than 40 residential buildings were damaged and destroyed, according to the office of the prosecutor general. the muscovites immediately aimed at dnipro-hes with eight rockets. the biggest blow fell on one of the supports of hes-2. beams were broken there, the damage was critical, and there was a large-scale leak of oil products into the dnipro river, the state environmental inspection reported. specialists took samples for water quality research. access to the dam is limited. a 57-year-old man

died due to enemy shelling in the kherson region, in the morning the occupiers raided the village of zmiivka residential buildings in the beryslav district were hit, reports the head of the region , oleksandr prokudin, and also from the very morning , the russian invaders hit kherson, they aimed at a residential high-rise in the center of the city, enemy shells damaged four apartments, fortunately no one lived there. the espresso tv channel is starting an urgent collection. the 65th separate mechanized brigade needs walkie-talkies and headphones. the boys are heroically defending our land from the russians in the hot zaporozhye direction. the occupiers conduct endless assaults there, use counter-defenders of artillery, armored vehicles and chemical weapons. despite this, the soldiers hold back the daily attacks of the muscovites. unfortunately, resources are running out, so they need your help. only uah 160,00 is needed for means of communication. we already have. 58,000 join

the collection to close it as soon as possible. you can see all the details on the screen. up to fifty uavs per day. that's how much our fighters are currently using at the front. almost uah 4 million was donated by espresso viewers on fpv - drones. and with this money they bought 163 drones and two maviks for the 93rd cold brigade yar and the drone platoon. of the sapsan aviation complexes, how all this was transferred to the military, further in the plot. that's how the soldiers of the platoon of unmanned air systems "sapsan" hit the equipment and manpower of the enemy. currently, fighters use up to 300 kamikaze drones in one month, and they need more every day, because each drone can be compared to a grenade in an attack aircraft. a large number of half drones on the front is very important, because it is density. this is

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by football together stronger! welcome to the espresso channel. today in our program war and weapons we will be. talk about what revolutionary measures the ukrainian army is implementing to bring victory closer, and this time, on the basis of artificial intelligence technologies. as an example, the armed forces reported that our military is mobilizing artificial intelligence to control the fire of the french caesar howitzer, which should reduce the use of ammunition and time to effect by as much as 30%. and colonel vadym sukharevskyi, who is now leads rydvoisk, the forces of unmanned systems, said that

unmanned drone projects with artificial intelligence, which were transferred to us by great britain, are already being tested at the front , in turn, the minister of digital transformation mykhailo fedorov announced that the mass use of fpv drones with artificial intelligence will begin in the first quarter of this year intelligence, and this is partially confirmed. in total , about 20... ukrainian companies are currently engaged in the implementation of artificial intelligence technologies in unmanned aircraft complexes, so further in our war and weapons program we we will talk about the possibilities and specific examples of the use of artificial intelligence to strengthen our defensive and offensive potential, while we will try to maintain critical thinking in our evaluations for the perception of this direction, because when the speaker... talks about artificial intelligence, it is not always clear what this is exactly what is being said, so we will be able to understand these

details using examples. my name is serhiy sgurets, i am the director of the defense express information and consulting company, which is currently working together with the espresso channels to highlight the most relevant military, industrial and technological trends that affect the combat effectiveness of our army. and then we will talk in more detail about the ukrainian startup called buntar aerospace, which has attracted quite significant funds from private investors for its innovative projects, including those related to artificial intelligence. there were publications that it was almost 1 million dollars. the team is working on a number of technological areas, and now they are all integrated into the company's top product, which is an unmanned long-range reconnaissance aircraft complex called buntar-1, and it the actual project is military-oriented. and for military needs. and now we are in touch with bohdan sas, he is the co-founder and

development director of the buntar aerospace project. mr. bohdan, i congratulate you, thank you for joining our broadcast. greetings, mr. serhiy, thank you for the invitation. i would like to start with such a simple question, why exactly did your team decide to take up this direction, because you are such certain neophytes, beginners in the market of creating security. technique and this then raises the question of what they planned to do and what we have for today. actually, it all started with a deep understanding of the problem. the co-founder of the company is an active military serviceman, an entrepreneur who , since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of russia, was mobilized by the ranks of the armed forces, and during this time conducted a huge number of reconnaissance missions, on different types, different classes of aircraft, at distances behind enemy lines, destroyed

a large number of enemy assets and actually understood... what are the shortcomings and things that can be improved and strengthened in those unmanned systems that the defense forces use, and so actually we've put together a team, and the team is quite young, and it's actually a good example of how quite engineering complex technologies can be developed relatively quickly, we're a little over six months in now, we 've put together a pretty strong team that has generally been... has been is attached to more than a hundred unmanned aerial vehicles that are already in use on the battlefield, and we are actually actively engaged in embedding our software. then the question arises, what are the features of your intelligence complex in comparison with those of today's samples use the armed forces? first of all, this is

software. in fact, all the products that fly today are not something unique: planes, modems, means of communication, cameras are standardized, quite universal means, and what we do is software that allows you to significantly automate the entire process of performing intelligence mission, and today the construction of a reconnaissance mission takes about one and a half to two hours in professions. for this, you need to have about five different means, these are laptops, different, various chats in signal, various situational awareness systems, and actually having a large and experienced crew, what we do, we automate these processes, we automate situational awareness and

we fully automate the steps that the operator has to perform in route construction and in... performance, therefore our main task is to increase the survivability of boards, and we all understand that boards of this class are quite expensive, a bird that flies 60, 100 km is quite expensive, we are talking about tens or even hundreds of thousands of hryvnias, and this problem is relevant both for ukraine and for nato countries, we actively work with similar ... barts from there, ah, and we quite often see how such an expensive bird of prey gets lost, or is shot down after literally a few flights, and therefore we took for ourselves the main task that we solve - this is the survivability of the product, accordingly we build software, and this software is already useful for our combat

operators, we use it to perform combat missions, ah, well, actually... other manufacturers unmanned aerial systems, they are also interested, and this is common goal, we are working to increase the survivability of the boards, because we need a lot of them, in modern war, when we see several thousand kilometers of the front, we need a large number of devices in order to scout targets at distances, these are air defense systems, these are complexes reb, ammunition depots, command posts, and that is why we are working on this, mr. mo, if you tell us in more detail about the complex itself, first about the expected or possibly achieved technical characteristics and what role will be played by artificial intelligence, which i started about our program, what exactly are you managing to deliver, what metrics to increase, in particular, i understand that it's mission reduction, that's one component, but i think that's not

the end of it, and certainly when we're talking about drones. air complex montar- 1, ah, a big advantage is the vertical report and landing, ah first of all, it helps operators to reduce the time to deploy the complex, to start a combat mission, and also to finish it successfully. ah, we tested many different variants of launches and landings, and we found out that it is vertical takeoff and landing is one of the most effective. ah, about the characteristics. for obvious reasons, we don't say much, but according to public information, we work at distances of 60 km from the start zone, and we have quite high quality. camera, our benchmark is to see air defense targets at a distance of about 10 km from their actual location, thus

achieving the opportunity to scout air defense assets without entering their range. speaking of software, it consists of two parts, we call it pilot, a system that helps the operator. plan and execute the mission, currently, we already have a complex for planning missions, which radically reduces from an hour and a half to 10 minutes the time that the operator spends on planning a high-quality mission, taking into account situational awareness, taking into account weather factors, technical characteristics of the aircraft, aa known areas of pppo, etc., actually we are already starting this complex. test with other manufacturers, including quite large ones, those that have been on the market for a long time, and they also produce high-quality devices that are used by the defense forces, and have

aim to increase their efficiency, because once again this war shows that technical means must be plentiful and they must be of sufficient quality in order to have a certain economic justification for their use, mr. bohdan in... what about your navigation system on the basis of artificial intelligence, which is either being developed or is already being implemented in the bunntar 1 project, what are the features in general terms, because if there is no gps, you are probably using other data as a base for orientation, and the interesting experience of this war shows that technical means, which were produced, including by ukraine, and... especially by partner countries, they are not ready for modern war, for the modern level of radio-electronic countermeasures, which

the enemy actually inflicts, and therefore the issue of navigation is really acute, due to the absence, or the lack of gps or its replacement , were lost, well, a significant number of bots, we know about it, that is exactly why we use a number of... navigation aids, the purpose of which is to protect the aircraft from the enemy and, if necessary , to turn it back, one of the elements of this complex of technical means is visual navigation, which we're actively working on, it does have parts of machine learning and artificial intelligence, and the main goal is to see. aah the surface lining that 's under the aircraft to, ah, understand where it is. ah, in our

case, high accuracy of this system is not necessary, because we do not send strike drones there for several thousand kilometers, we need, there is no need for high accuracy, so the task is simplified, the task is not easy, ah, it is one from products, in fact, on which we attracted. funds to create it, test it, actually in combat conditions and use it, but we have certain successes in this, when we talk about successes, then one way or another they must be confirmed by the results of one or another test, you said that this process is already underway, are potential users from our law enforcement agencies involved in this process, is there any feedback from the point of view of evaluations, efficiency of the complex, maybe something needs to be refined, and when this stage of testing is completed, to move on to other the stages there, in particular, either certification, or

formalization of relations with the defense , regarding the purchase of such a complex, if it will meet the needs of the military, and actually the product itself was created in the interests of end users, in fact, one of the co-founders is a military serviceman. who manages in similar structures and similar complexes, and therefore, first of all, we already understood what the product should be, after that more than 50 canvases were made, and we already understand the strong sidewalls of the party in constant contact with military personnel, with different branches of the military, and in fact i want to note their great involvement, and great interest and great readiness helps. after all, they actually feel the lack of complexes of this type, so they are naturally most interested in helping in all possible ways, and when

we talk about improving the characteristics, we started with civilian components, in the beginning there were available components that anyone can buy in free access, but actually in the results of such checks, tests and trials, it became it is clear that, after all, aviation is not a cheap business for a reason, it is a very highly specialized business in which there must be... we are highly qualified specialists, and those components that perform well on the battlefield in difficult conditions, such as weather, ah, technical, and actually under the action, ah , means of countermeasures of the enemy, they must be of high quality, expensive, we use western components, we do not depend on china for this, and on similar countries under sanctions or hostile to us in some countries, and therefore ... there is a lot of

work going on, and this is a big engineering project, precisely for this, we attracted a fairly large amount from private investors in order to quickly make a product that meets the needs of the military. you mention , first of all, investments from individuals who are interested in this project, so that it will be implemented as soon as possible in the format of such a competitive product, but what about... state aid, were there any solutions that helped you to solve these or that moments related to the creation of your intelligence complex? excellent question, we passed the authorization of brivan and the main state body, which at the ministry of digital helps to develop such innovative products, currently we are waiting for a grant from them, it is 25 thousand. dollars, which

will also help us in development, but the largest part of the funding is, of course, private investment, ah, starting this company, we were not sure how much a country that is in a state of a serious war of inflation will be able to, how much we can to find investors, however, we have seen good results. that both people in ukraine and abroad understand the problem, and they understand, as well as the fact that this market will grow, that the products that are currently being developed and tested in ukraine will be competitive in the future on world markets, primarily on the nato market, and at the same time they have a large motivation to help us as a company that helps. and

by the defense forces of ukraine, we see very great interest and great help, the investments that we attracted were both large sums from specialized investment companies, and a small part of people who simply wanted to help us, and thus we see a big problem, the fact that in ukraine funds cannot be taken outside the borders, and in fact there is a lot of capital in ukraine, there is a lot of capital and... and actually there should be quality projects, it is clear that there are investors who are ready to invest in it, you talk about financial capital, it really exists in the state, but there is also human capital, and the question arises, how many people are currently working on the project, is there a need to expand precisely, well, teams that can speed up the production of this product, and relatively speaking , now we're talking... about for now

that one, as i understand it, the complex on which all the technologies are tested, the question arises, after passing all the tests, the question of scaling production, so the two questions, people and opportunities for scaling, you very correctly combined these two, these two subjects into one question, because human capital, qualified engineers are the biggest problem. currently we have more than 25 people in our team and we are actively growing, primarily in the direction of production, because, going back to our previous business experience, we we know how to create a software product, establish management, and remove financing with little effort, but production still remains very capital-intensive and... in a slow

process, what if.