The reality of AI – Nato’s Nightmare: Russia is Reshaping the AI Kill Chain
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Russia is rewriting modern warfare.
A new paper from CSIS explains how Moscow abandoned large-scale Command and Control (military systems, procedures, and technology commanders use to issue orders, receive information from the battlefield, and coordinate forces) modernization and instead weaponized agility.
Russia’s new center of gravity is tactical software that shortens the kill chain. Systems like Svod and Glaz/Groza now manage 80% of fire missions, compressing detection-to-impact from hours to minutes. Civilian coders, many volunteering, built these tools on encrypted messaging apps and consumer-grade tablets before transitioning them to secure, military-controlled platforms. This improvised pipeline became formalized.
AI matures in visual/audio processing for target recognition & guidance; text analysis lags, focusing on human support like predictions & scenarios. But computer vision, sensor fusion, and terminal guidance are combat-mature and deployed at scale. Russia weaponizes open-source or commercially available models like Mistral, YOLO, LLaMA, adapting foreign architectures inside closed, sanctioned-proof environments. No need to build foundational models from zero when someone else already did.
Russia has abandoned abstract Command and Control modernization for task-specific software that accelerates the kill chain where payoff is immediate. Its AI investment follows the same logic: computer vision and sensor fusion are combat-mature and deployed at scale, while text analysis and decision support remain experimental. Russia is working on improving its natural language processing by adapting open-weight models developed by the US, China, and Europe, embedding them inside controlled environments. Russia is developing practical applications to improve battlefield effectiveness, adapting and creating its own concepts. Will Russia’s savage AI hacks bury America’s fancy tech delusions alive?
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