At the end of May, Hadrien Canter, founder of the start-up Alta Ares, spent ten days in kyiv. A stay led drums in which he participated in a “hackathon” organized by the Ukrainian army. “For seventy-two hours, the developers had to work on thirty specific subjects defined by the military. It was intense “says the boss of this French company born in Ukraine in 2023 and which has just raised 2 million euros from several investment funds.
Object of this brainstorming: thwart the new Russian defense systems. A challenge that Alta Ares, software specialist designed to analyze, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), the flows of images transmitted in flight to detect enemy positions. “Beyond the respect that the Ukrainian cause inspires in us, we must face the facts: today, a company that feeds ambitions in the field of drones must be present in this country”hammers Hadrien Canter.
Since the start of the Russian invasion, in February 2022, a new type of armed conflict dominated by technological issues has installed aircraft controlled at the heart of the war. Faced with more numerous and more heavily equipped Russian forces, Ukraine has, failing to have sufficient number of missiles, massively resorted to drones in order to protect its territory and carry out offensive actions. Largely funded by international aid, this unprecedented investment has moved the center of gravity of the world drone industry.
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Source: Lemonde