in more than two decades in power , putin's rhetoric has changed dramatically. on december 31, 1999 , the first president of russia, boris yeltsin , announced his resignation and named the newly appointed prime minister as his successor. the unknown ex-head of the fsb quickly gained popularity by unleashing the second chechen war. we will chase terrorists everywhere in the airport. at the airport, that means you, i'm sorry, we'll catch them in the toilet, we'll soak them in the toilet, eventually. this loud phrase, which russians liked so much, was voiced by putin afterwards another bombing of grozny by russian aircraft. even then, some in the west were wary, however, most of the statements of the new political leader did not give cause for concern. during the 2000 elections, putin talked about the partnership with the usa and the eu, the necessity. the construction of a democratic

country is far from complete, but much has already been done. we are obliged to protect achievements. in the early 2000s, putin , at least publicly, did not yet challenge the west and voiced much more modest tasks for russia. for example, after 15 years. catch up with the level of gdp per capita of portugal, at that time one of the poorest countries in the eu. it was not possible to do this. but the sharp rise in world oil prices enriched putin's elite and made putin himself dizzy. anti-western motifs began to sound more and more often in his speeches. the orange revolution in ukraine, the arab spring in the middle east, everywhere putin saw the hand of the usa. in february

2007, he delivered the infamous munich speech, which kicked off a new confrontation between russia and the west. putin went to the 2012 elections already with anti-western rhetoric. what i see now and what i talked about in munich is not an alliance. i sometimes think that america doesn't need allies, they need vassals. it became a point of no return. 2014, first the occupation of crimea, then the war in donbas started by russia. he lost touch with reality. german chancellor angela merkel told us president barack obama about this after a conversation with putin in early march 2014. since then, anti-western and anti-ukrainian paranoia in the kremlin has only intensified. putin began to carry the opener delusions about the threats of biological weapons, which... and you know that biological material

is collected throughout the country, and among different ethnic groups and people living in different geographical points of the russian federation. so the question is: why is this done? the situation was complicated by the covid pandemic. putin's circle of communication narrowed even more. he delved into reading historical works and began to scribble pseudo-historical articles himself. those about ukraine and in the end, started a great war. for more than 20 years, putin has been selling russians the idea of ​​stability in the elections. now she has been replaced the idea of ​​a special mission of russia, which, together with its new ally china, opposes the underhanded measure. russia is turning into north korea before our eyes. the economy was on military rails. political opponents are killed. disagree in prison. plant. can be insulted in social networks,

the current goal of the dictator is to destroy ukraine. putin is a sick person who hunts and does not even understand what he is doing, or does not control his army, which shoots at civilians, at diplomats, at the leaders of other states. putin's global goal is change the world order. on the eve of the so -called elections, he repeatedly declared his readiness to apply. the question is how many more lives he will manage to take with him. welcome to the espresso channel. today , in our war and weapons program, we will talk about how revolutionary. measures

are being introduced by the ukrainian army to bring victory closer, and this time on the basis of artificial intelligence technologies. as an example, the armed forces reported that our military was mobilizing. artificial intelligence to control the fire of the french howitzer caesar, and it has reduce the use of ammunition, from time to time to impress targets by about 30%. and colonel vadym sukharevskyi, who is now the head of novy rydvoisk, that is, the forces of unmanned systems, said that unmanned drone projects with artificial intelligence, which were handed over to us by great britain, in turn, by the minister of digital, are already being tested at the front. transformation mykhailo fedorov announced that in the first quarter of this year the mass use of fpv drones with artificial intelligence will begin, and this is partially confirmed. in total, there are about 20 ukrainian companies now is engaged in the implementation

of artificial intelligence technologies in unmanned aircraft complexes, so further in our war and weapons program, we will talk about the possibilities and concrete examples of using artificial intelligence to... to strengthen our defensive and offensive potential, while trying to maintain critical thinking in our evaluations for the perception of this direction, because when a developer talks about artificial intelligence, it is not always clear what exactly is being said, so we will be able to understand these details my name is serhiy sgurets, i am the director of the information and consulting company defense express, which is now jointly with the channels. the press seeks 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 said almost about 1 million dollars. the team works 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 is actually a project focused on military goals and 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. bohdana, i congratulate you, thank you for joining our broadcast. congratulations, mr. sergey, thank you for the invitation. i would like to start with something so simple the question is why your team actually decided to take this direction, because you are such certain neophytes, newcomers to the market of creating unmanned equipment, and then the question arises, what were you planning to do

and what do we have today. actually, it all started with a deep understanding of the problem, the co-founder of the company. a military man, 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 brought a huge number of intelligence cloths, aa on different types, different classes planes, 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, so we actually assembled 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 and we 've put together a pretty strong team that 's been involved in over...hundreds of uavs 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 samples that are used by the armed forces today. and first of all, this is software. actually, all products that fly. today is not something unique, but airplanes, but modems, communication devices, cameras are standardized, quite universal means, and what we do is software that allows you to significantly automate the entire execution process

reconnaissance mission, today, the construction of a reconnaissance mission takes about one and a half to two hours for a professional crew, for this it is necessary to have... about five different means, these are laptops, various different chats in signal, and various systems of situational awareness, well and actually have a large and... proven crew and what we do, we automate these processes, automate situational awareness and fully automate the steps that the operator must perform in route construction and execution, therefore our main task is to increase the survivability of ships, and we all understand that ships of this class are quite expensive, a bird that flies for... 50, 100 km is quite expensive, we are talking about tens or even hundreds of thousands of hryvnias, and this problem is

urgent both for ukraine and for nato countries, we actively work with similar boards from there, and we quite often see how such an expensive bird of prey gets lost or is shot down after just a few flights, and therefore we took upon ourselves the main task, which we decide, it's usability. er product accordingly, we build software, ah, this software is already useful for our combat operators, we use it to perform combat missions, ah, well, actually other manufacturers of unmanned aerial systems, they are also interested, and this is a common goal, we are working to increase the survivability of assemblies, because many of them are needed, in modern warfare, when we see several thousand kilometers. front, ah, we need a large number of devices in order to scout targets at distances, these are air defense systems, these are reb complexes,

these are ammunition depots, command posts, ah, that's why we're working on it. mr. bohdano, to tell in more detail about the complex itself, first about the expected or possibly achieved technical characteristics, and what role is played by artificial intelligence, which i started our talk about. the program, what exactly you manage to ensure , what indicators to increase, in particular, i understand that this is a reduction of the mission, this is one component, but i think that it does not end there, and certainly when we are talking about the gontar-1 unmanned aerial complex, and a big advantage is the vertical report and landing, first of all, it helps operators to reduce the time for deploying the complex, for starting a combat mission, and also for it in... finished, ah, tested many different variants of notes and

landings, ah, found out , that vertical takeoff and landing is one of the most effective. ah, we don’t talk much about the characteristics for obvious reasons, but according to public information, we work at distances of 60 km from the launch zone, and we have a fairly high-quality camera, our benchmark is to see air defense targets at a distance of about 10 km from their actual location, thus achieving an opportunity to scout air defense assets without entering their area of ​​operation. ah, speaking of the software, it consists of two parts, we call it the pilot, the system that helps the operator plan and execute the mission, and... currently, we already have a complex for planning missions, which drastically reduces from an

hour and a half to 10 minutes, and reduces the time that the operator spends on planning a high-quality mission taking into account situational business, taking into account weather factors, technical the characteristics of the aircraft, the known areas of pppo, so what, in fact, we are already starting to test this complex with other manufacturers in that... 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 are aimed at increasing their effectiveness, because again, and this war shows that there must be a lot of technical means, and they must be of sufficient quality in order to have a certain economic netting in their use, mr. bohdan, in of your navigation... system on the basis of artificial intelligence, which is either being developed or is already being implemented in

the buntar-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 manufactured including by ukraine, and especially by partner countries, they are not... ready for modern warfare, for the modern level of radio-electronic countermeasures, which the enemy actually inflicts, and therefore the issue of navigation is really acute. er, due to absence, or, or the lack of gps, or its replacement, were lost, well, a significant number of bots, ah , we know about it, that is exactly why we use several means for navigation, the purpose of which is to protect the plane from the enemy, and

if necessary, and return its back, and one of the elements... of the technical means complex 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, the surface lining that's under the aircraft, in order to understand where he is, in in our case, high accuracy of this system is not necessary. because we don't send strike drones there for several thousand kilometers, we need, there is no need for great accuracy, so the task is simplified, the task is not easy, and this is one of the products, in fact, for which we raised funds in order to create it, test it , actually in combat conditions and use, and yet we have certain successes in this, when we

talk about successes, then one way or another they must be confirmed by... the results of these or other tests, you said that this the 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 of the effectiveness of the complex, maybe something needs to be refined and when this stage of testing is completed, to move on to other stages, in particular, certification or well , the formalization of the relationship between the defense and the purchase of such a complex. that it will meet the needs of the military? well, actually the product itself was created in the interests of a-a end users, a-a, actually, one of one of the co-founders is a military serviceman who manages similar structures and complexes, and therefore, first of all, we already understood

what the deduction should be, after that more than 50 canvases were made, and we... already understand the strengths and weaknesses of constant contact with military personnel, with different types of troops, and in fact i would like to note their great involvement, great interest and great willingness to help, because actually they feel the lack of complexes of this type, and therefore they are naturally most interested in to help in every possible way and when we talk about improving the characteristics of a... we started with civilian components, in the beginning there were components available that anyone can buy freely, but actually in the results of such checks, tests and trials, it became clear that, after all, aviation is not a cheap business for a reason, it is a very narrowly

specialized business that requires highly qualified specialists. those components that show themselves well on the battlefield in difficult conditions, such as weather, technical, and actually under the action of the enemy's countermeasures, they must be 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 ways, and therefore a lot of work is going on, and this is a big... 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 faster

implemented in the format of such a competitive product, and what about state aid, were there any... solutions that helped you solve certain points related to the creation of your intelligence complex? great question, we have passed the authorization of breivan, and the main state body, which under the ministry of digital helps to develop such innovative products, we are currently waiting for a grant from them, it is 25 thousand dollars, which will also help us in different ways. however, the largest part of the financing is, of course, private investment, starting this company we were not sure how much a country that is in a state of a serious war for survival would be able to find investors,

however, good results, we saw that both people in ukraine and abroad, ah, understand the issues, 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, they... will be competitive in the future on world markets, primarily on the nato market, and they have a great motivation to help this for us, as a company that helps the defense forces of ukraine, we see a lot of interest and a lot of help, and the investments that we attracted were large sums from specialized investment companies, as well as... small parts of people who just wanted us to help, and thus we see a big problem, that in ukraine funds cannot

be transferred beyond the borders, and in fact there is a lot of capital in ukraine, there is a lot of capital, and actually there should be quality projects, it is clear that there are investors who are ready to invest in this you talk about financial capital, it really it probably exists in the state, but there is still 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 are talking about so far one, as i understand the complex on which all technologies are developed, the question arises, after passing all the tests, the question of scaling production, so two questions, people and possibilities for scaling. you put the two together very well, the two subjects in one question, because human capital, qualified engineers are the biggest

problem, ah, currently we have more than 25 people in the team, and we are actively growing, primarily in the direction of production, because, going back to our previous business experience. we know how to create a software product, establish management , and withdraw funding with little effort, but production still remains a very capital-intensive and resource-intensive process, and if we look at any production, both in ukraine and in nato countries, as well as russia itself, we actively look at what means of technology they use. then we will see that it is still a rather manual process that requires highly qualified people, and this is the biggest problem, we are actively working on it, we

have quite a lot of vacancies, and moreover, the situation in which ukraine is shows that at present, the involvement of civilians in defense companies is extremely relevant, it is popular. on the phrase that you are either at the front or helping those who are at the front, and we see that those who are involved in the development of certain engineering decisions, well, they really help in this war, sir, thank you very much for such interesting details, i hope that after some time we will be able to meet again and talk in more detail about the results of your complex on the battlefield, i will remind our viewers, that... it was bohdan sas, co-founder and development director of buntar aerospace. this company is developing an unmanned long-range reconnaissance aircraft complex called buntar-1 based on

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we continue our war and weapons program, where we are now trying to understand what opportunities artificial intelligence provides for the armed forces, and now we have oleksandr los, former president of the antonov concern, doctor of technical sciences, current officer of the armed forces, mr. oleksandr , i congratulate you, i am glad to see and hear in eterispresso, dear sergey, you, glory to ukraine. glory to heroes. i would like you, relying on your own colossal experience , to explain to our viewers that we should still understand the definition of artificial intelligence when we try to tie it to the performance of certain military tasks, because i have the impression that that even when even the elements of machine vision we perceive as a big step forward, but i think that the picture is much larger and

more complex. what is your view on these processes that we can now, well, see on the battlefield using the potential of artificial intelligence you are absolutely right that there is, for sure, an inaccurate understanding of concepts such as artificial intelligence and machine vision in society, and people are really confused about terms, concepts and concepts. i would like to apply, traditionally for me, a scientific approach. and turn to the origins and define exactly what artificial intelligence is, i will define it based on the world's first encyclopedia of cybernetics, which was published by the academy of sciences of ukraine back in 1973, based on all world and ukrainian achievements, including systems development, anti-aircraft missile systems, computer systems for space shuttles, and so on.

that is, these were already the results of e-e on