Monday, June 29th 2026 - 06:53 UTC
Among the measures, Belousov mentioned the creation of mobile air-defense groups equipped with FPV (“first-person view”) interceptor drones
Russia is developing new air defense systems based on artificial intelligence technologies, the country's defense minister, Andrei Belousov, announced on Monday. The official said it was one of the priority projects the country aims to complete before the end of the year, against the backdrop of mounting Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian territory.
“We are actively working on it, I mean air defenses. It is one of the seven projects we must complete before the end of the year. We will have the results in November,” Belousov said in a meeting with military correspondents, according to the Russian state agency TASS. The minister held that the situation at the front changes “roughly every two or three months,” which, he said, forces Moscow to adapt its systems frequently.
Among the measures, Belousov mentioned the creation of mobile air-defense groups equipped with FPV (“first-person view”) interceptor drones. “These are mobile groups armed above all with FPV interceptor drones. We are actively implementing this,” he said. He added that since April Russia has been working on a “unified information environment” to strengthen its early-warning systems, through computer tools that, as he described them, allow targets to be identified at the tactical level and combat actions to be coordinated.
