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Russia is testing the autopilot ability from a drone named MS001, which is said to use Super Nvidia Jetson Orin chip.
According to Maj. Gen. Vladyslav Klochkov from Ukraine, who wrote about MS001 on LinkedIn, this drone could see, analyze, decide, and attack targets without orders from humans.
MS001 is also equipped with various sensors to support the action, such as thermal cameras, telemetry real time, and can operate in groups, quoted detikinet from Techspot, Wednesday (9/7/2025).
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The ability of AI MS001 came from Jetson Orin, a super mini -sized computer, only the size of a palm, which was only introduced to the public in December 2024.
Jetson Mini has a computing capability of 67 INT8 Tops and memory bandwidth of 102GB/s. The main brain is the Nvidia Ampere GPU chip equipped with a core tensor and is paired with a 6 core CPU, and the price is USD 249.
MS001 is said to not need target coordinate data, and can make decisions like a drone controlled by humans. This drone can identify targets, manage target priorities, and manage the route. This ability makes him immune to Jamming against GPS signals, even the target is maneuvering.
“This is a digital predator,” Klochkov wrote.
MS001 is a variant drone of an Iranian drone named Shahed. And, Russia has another drone that also uses Jetson Orin, namely V2U, which also uses components from China as a motherboard, the Leetop A603. This V2U drone is described as a suicide drone equipped with AI.
Since 2022, the United States has actually banned sophisticated chip exports into Russia and put hundreds of buyers from Russia on the Blacklist. But still found a tool of Russian war that uses technology from Nvidia.
The possibility of Jetson Orin was smuggled in various ways, including disguising him as a consumer device, and sent in the form of a small package through a shell company in Hong Kong, China, Singapore and Türkiye.
Investigators in the United States estimated that there were NVIDIA components worth USD 17 million which were infiltrated through this black market in 2023.
In its official statement, Nvidia said the Jetson Orin module was a consumer class device aimed at students, developers, and startups with various purposes.
“(Jetson Orin) is not sold to Russia and is not designed for military purposes. If we find a Jetson distributor who violates American export rules, we will break the supply to them,” Nvidia wrote in its official statement.
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