All of this, for better or worse, has allowed many companies to bypass the traditional, time-consuming process of testing and demonstrating products.
Some observers, disturbed by the entry of tech companies into conflict zones, worry that companies are avoiding ethical and safety concerns about their tools by going to war. Clearview AI has provided Ukraine with access to a controversial facial recognition tool that helps identify Russian war dead. This raises moral and practical questions around accuracy, privacy, and human rights. Publishing images of people killed in war is probably a violation of the Geneva Conventions. Some prominent technology executives, including Palantir CEO Alex Karp and former Google CEO turned military technology investor Eric Schmidt, have used the dispute to We are changing global norms on the use of artificial intelligence in warfare, and we are building systems that allow machines to harness it. Some experts fear this could be the gateway to autonomous “killer robots.”
LMT’s Polax said he has visited Ukraine frequently since the war began. Although he refuses to provide details, he euphemistically describes Ukraine’s wartime bureaucracy as “non-standardized.” If you want to blow something up in front of an audience in the EU, you have to go through a huge number of approvals, he says, and the paperwork can take months or even years. In Ukraine, many people want to try your tool.
“Unfortunately, (Ukraine) is currently the best defense technology testing ground in the world,” Polax said. “If you’re not in Ukraine, you’re not in the defense business.”
Jack Wang, principal at Project A, a UK-based venture capital fund that invests in military technology startups, also believes Ukraine’s “trajectory” could prove incredibly fruitful. agree. “Selling to Ukraine allows for faster product and technology iteration and field testing,” he says. “The dollar can fluctuate. Sometimes it’s zero, sometimes it’s a lot. But it gets the product to the field faster.”
Feedback from the field is invaluable. Atlas Dynamics has opened an office in Ukraine, where company representatives work with soldiers and special forces to improve and refine its products. When the Russian military began jamming broadband radio frequencies to disrupt communication with drones, Atlas developed a smart frequency hopping system that scans for unjammed frequencies and switches control of the drone to those frequencies. designed to keep soldiers one step ahead of the enemy. .
At Global Wolf, Mosphera’s battlefield testing led to small but significant product iterations that naturally occur as soldiers use them. One of the problems associated with scooters on the front lines proved to be resupplying ammunition to soldiers in the trenches. Just as urban scooters have become a last-mile delivery solution in urban areas, the military has found the Mosfera suitable for shuffling small amounts of ammunition at high speeds over rough terrain and through forests. To facilitate this task, Global Wolf has tweaked the design of the vehicle’s optional additional trailer to perfectly fit eight NATO standard-sized bullet boxes.
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Some snipers prefer electric mosferas to noisy motorcycles or quad bikes and use the vehicles to weave through the trees to get into position. However, they also prefer to shoot from the saddle. You cannot take pictures from the footplate of the scooter. So Global Wolf designed a stable seat that allows firing without the shooter having to dismount. Some units require an infrared light, and the company manufactured that as well. These types of requests give the team ideas for new upgrades. “It’s like buying a car,” Asmanis says. “You can enjoy it with air conditioning, without air conditioning, or with heated seats.”