Joint trials of autonomous terminal guidance
On 8 September 2026 Brave1 announced trials of automatic terminal-guidance modules for drones against moving ground targets, run with the Ministry of Defence's Main Directorate of Defence Innovations under a single scenario. Six of seven companies passed and received purchase recommendations. Brave1 says the number of strikes using AI terminal guidance has grown 10 times since the start of the year.
Why it matters
By Brave1's description this is the first test of the technology at such a scale under a single scenario: suppliers of autonomous terminal guidance are checked against one criterion rather than by demonstrations. No result per company is given, and the tenfold growth is the cluster's own claim with no explanation of what was compared.
What the post says. Multirotor platforms of 10 inches and up with a payload of at least 2 kg were tested. The drone had to fly 2 km, acquire a moving target from more than 500 m and hit it fully autonomously (the pilot took hands off the controller). Each team had up to three attempts; success was at least 2 hits in 3. Six of seven companies passed and received purchase recommendations. The aim, Brave1 says, is to spread automatic AI and machine-vision terminal guidance as widely as possible in the army; whether to switch the function on during a given mission is for the military to decide. What the record does not claim: when and where the trials took place; which companies; how many hits each had; what the "10 times growth" counts (baseline, absolute numbers, source); that a recommendation led to a contract. It is the cluster's own post, not an independent assessment.