Finnish Army Begins Training with Anti-Drone Systems

According to the Yle website, the Finnish Defense Forces are beginning intensive training focused on the use of modern anti-drone systems. This is a direct response to the ever-growing threat that unmanned aerial vehicles currently pose on the battlefield.

The military describes these new defense systems as extremely easy to use and highly cost-effective. According to Colonel Mano-Mikael Nokelainen, the Air Defense Inspector, the systems will first be tested by active-duty military personnel as early as this fall. Next year, this specialized training will be expanded to include conscripts.

Newly formed drone defense batteries will also be equipped with this new technology. Modern methods of warfare uncompromisingly demand more cost-effective solutions from air defense systems.

Mikko Hyppönen, head of research at Sensofusion, a company that specializes in drone defense, said that attack drone technology and the systems designed to neutralize them are evolving at a dizzying pace. A dangerous game of cat and mouse has thus emerged on the battlefield.

The expert also cautioned that it is only a matter of time before drones powered by advanced artificial intelligence begin to autonomously make fatal decisions about human life and death based on their own algorithms.

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