{
  "id": 14780100,
  "title": "Posting strike videos online may help Russia tune its drones’ optical targeting. Moscow now pays people to film hits, Ukrainian adviser warns",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/posting-strike-videos-online-may-help-russia-tune-its-drones-optical",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-15T20:20:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Euromaidan Press",
    "slug": "euromaidan-press",
    "url": "https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/10/15/posting-strike-videos-online-may-help-russia-tune-its-drones-optical-targeting-moscow-now-pays-people-to-film-hits-ukrainian-adviser-warns/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Posting videos of drone strikes on social media platforms might inadvertently improve Russia's targeting algorithms. Russian President's defense-technology adviser Serhii \"Flash\" Beskrestnov claims that Russia is gathering footage of its Geran attack drones striking Ukraine for analysis. These Geran drones are equipped with machine vision that enables them to independently identify and track targets during their final stages of flight, a capability that Ukrainian electronic warfare struggles to counter. Moscow has started paying people within Ukraine to capture the landing spots of these drones, a practice Beskrestnov notes as a recent development after four years of not soliciting such information. The adviser attributes this sudden demand to Russia's optical guidance systems, which require real-world combat data to evaluate the performance of its targeting algorithms. He cautions Ukrainians to cease disseminating videos of Russian attacks, emphasizing the grave consequences such actions pose to their efforts.",
  "summary": "Russia is collecting footage of its Geran attack drones hitting Ukraine, probably to test the optical target-recognition systems that guide them in their final seconds.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}