Why is Russia Painting its Attack Drones Wings in Vibrant Colors?

Rudimentary IFF for robots. In other words, visual AI swarm coordination.

Russia just took a page out of a sci-fi war manual and scribbled "Swarm AI" all over it in crayon. On May 18, Ukrainian observers spotted a new breed of kamikaze drone near Velykyi Burluk, Kharkiv region.

This wasn’t your average knockoff Shahed. It was part of a formation, six, maybe seven drones, flying in a pack with painted wings, behaving like they …