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Ukraine's Hornet Drone AI Beats Russian Jamming With No Human in the Loop
09 July 2026

Ukraine's Hornet Drone AI Beats Russian Jamming With No Human in the Loop

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Ukraine built compact AI small enough to run on a five-hundred-dollar drone, and it's beating the electronic warfare systems Russia spent years developing. But the engineering story leads somewhere harder: a four-minute window on final approach where no human is deciding anything — and an official policy that says that window doesn't exist. Jet West walks through both claims, the sourcing behind the numbers, and who actually owns the factory.