Emma Roth
Ukraine used open source software to carry out its drone strikes.
On Sunday, Ukraine’s security agency released footage of the strikes targeting Russian airfields, which show the country’s use of ArduPilot, as reported earlier by 404Media.
The open-source software was developed nearly 20 years ago for Arduino systems before evolving into advanced autopilot software for multicopters, traditional helicopters, and other vehicles, according to its website. “Not in a million years would I have predicted this outcome,” Jason Short, one of the software’s co-creators, said in a post on X. “I just wanted to make flying robots.”
