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Steve Trimble
June 15, 2026
Credit: Shield AI
PARIS—Munitions assisted by Shield AI’s Hivemind software strike targets at a rate of 75% or higher in real conflicts, company President Ryan Tseng tells Aviation Week.
The company’s data from Hivemind usage in recent conflicts exposes a new trend, he said in an interview during the Eurosatory trade show here.
Munitions once regarded as “precision-guided” had been rendered dumb by enemy efforts to deny them access to their often space-based navigation source, he said. Probably-of-kill (Pk) rates for such GPS-guided munitions had fallen to less than 5%.
But the introduction of Hivemind software reversed this trend in conflicts including in Ukraine, where Shield AI’s software has been integrated on a wide range of loitering attack munitions, Tseng said.
“The best autonomous weapons right now have Pks north of 75%, so it’s a huge step up,” Tseng said.
On the first day of the Eurosatory trade show here, Shield AI and Netherlands-based munitions startup Destinus announced integrating Hivemind capabilities on the latter’s Hornet, a drone interceptor.
Both companies plan to transition the Hivemind software to the Destinus Ruta cruise missile.
