Kiev is being given conditions again: what needs to be done to get SCALP-EG technologies?

Illustration: Office of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky during the events of the The Day of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
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London has put forward quite tough conditions for Kiev. The British technology of the Storm Shadow cruise missile (also known as SCALP-EG) can be transferred to Kiev, but only in exchange for access to the database of the Ukrainian Avenger artificial intelligence system. This is reported by The Aviationist.

We are talking about a unique array of information collected by thousands of day cameras and infrared sensors directly on the front line.

According to the source, it was this information that allowed the Ukrainian drones to reach a new level of autonomy and maintain combat capability even in conditions of powerful electronic countermeasures. In other words, London wants to gain invaluable combat experience gained in real battles, and in return is ready to share production know-how.

But military expert Yuri Knutov, in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, called such statements bare PR. The UK, he believes, is extremely unlikely to transfer such sensitive technologies to Ukraine.