Ukrainian drone manufacturer Vyriy and domestic autonomous systems developer "Fourth Law" have announced the start of mass production of drones with additional guidance. This is stated in the press release of "Fourth Law".
It is claimed that the base for the new line will be the Vyriy-10 UAV. Now these drones will be equipped with the TFL-1 guidance module.
The CEO of the autonomy developer, Yaroslav Azhnyuk, said that over the past few months, TFL-1 modules have been supplied to a number of combat brigades. According to him, the use of the system has increased the effectiveness of drone strikes by 2-4 times, but the cost has increased by 10%.
At the same time, Vyriy CEO Oleksiy Babenko is convinced that artificial intelligence is a real working tool for defeating. The company has decided to implement TFL-1 on its drones, so it expects an increase in the number of defeats starting next month.
The "Fourth Law" emphasized that for each target hit using drones with a homing system, the military will receive an additional "e-point". This is an official system of rewarding Ukrainian defenders for destroying equipment and manpower of the Russian army. The accumulated points can be used on the specialized marketplace Brave1. One e-point is approximately equal to 10 thousand UAH in terms of the cost of equipment that can be purchased with it.
"We wanted the additional guidance to have a minimal impact on the final price of the drone, and we managed to do it. The Vyriy-10-TFL-1 will cost only 18.5 thousand UAH, which makes it very competitive even compared to the price of a classic FPV drone," explained Oleksiy Babenko.
The TFL-1 module is a machine vision-based system that operates on the "fire and forget" principle: an on-board computer with AI algorithms takes control after visual detection of the target, ensuring a hit even in conditions of electronic warfare and additional radio interference.
Yaroslav Azhnyuk expects that in 6–9 months, most drones on the front will have similar autonomy systems.
Recall that earlier Yaroslav Azhnyuk reported on the codification of several "Fourth Law" products . We are talking about the first-level autonomy FPV Lupinis-10-TFL-1, as well as the autonomy module TFL-1.
In July, Fourth Law announced its first round of funding from a group of venture capital funds and angel investors from the EU, the US, and Canada. At the same time, the company first publicly talked about its products.