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Ukraine Launches Mission Control — a Unified Digital System for Drone Warfare Management
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Ukraine has officially launched Mission Control, a national digital system for managing all drone operations within the military ecosystem DELTA.
The launch was announced by Ukraine’s Minister of Defence Mykhailo Fedorov, who confirmed that the official order to deploy the system has already been signed.
Mission Control centralises all UAV operations into a single digital environment. Each drone crew enters operational data into the system, including drone type, launch location, flight route, and mission task. The data is generated automatically based on real battlefield activity, eliminating paper reports and manual summaries.
The system provides commanders with a real-time operational picture across drone units, shifting drone management from fragmented coordination to a structured, data-driven command layer.
According to Fedorov, Mission Control reduces bureaucratic workload for military personnel and accelerates decision-making by replacing intuition and delayed reporting with continuous operational data.
The Ministry of Defence plans to roll out a similar system for artillery as the next phase. The project was developed within the Brave1 defence innovation cluster by the “mathematics of war” department and has been under development for approximately two years.
Mission Control marks a transition toward system-level, algorithm-supported warfare management — where command decisions are grounded in live digital data streams rather than fragmented human reporting.
