General James Rainey, head of the US Army’s Technical Modernization Department, confirmed in an interview with The Times that the US armed forces are inferior to Russia in the development of unmanned technologies.
James Rainey noted that the Pentagon is actively analyzing the experience of combat use of drones in its combat zone. According to him, the future of the ground forces is connected with autonomous robots and swarms of drones controlled by artificial intelligence. Such systems will be able to attack targets in a coordinated manner in the coming years.
A real breakthrough in the industry will occur only if an effective human-machine combination is created, the general added.
Rainey ruled out the possibility of completely replacing soldiers with artificial intelligence, but stressed that drones should take on the main risks, freeing people for tasks inaccessible to machines. He also concluded that the lag of the United States in this area has provoked a new arms race, comparable in scale to space or nuclear.
Earlier, The Economist magazine wrote that massive strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles of the Russian Federation have become a serious threat to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in all directions of the front.
