Isaac Flanagan: Ukraine's DELTA battlefield system earned global respect
Ukrainian technology DELTA, highly praised by specialists from around the world, has become a real breakthrough in digitalization, Zero Line co-founder Isaac Flanagan said during the discussion "Generation of the Unbreakable: General Petraeus' Reflections β View from Washington" organized by Kyiv Security Forum.
Flanagan said that it was very important to learn from Ukrainian technology, both in software and in analytics. He added that this was also a matter of policy, because the biggest innovations in Ukraine were precisely changes in policy approaches. According to him, DELTA had earned the respect of the whole world as one of the most important elements of military programs.
He said the lesson DELTA had taught everyone was not only how to coordinate forces on the battlefield, but that it was, in effect, an architecture of decision-making.
Flanagan also said that no Western innovation center, despite all its budgets, had achieved results comparable to Ukraine's in digitalization.
According to him, DELTA had been created by volunteers who later handed it over to a frontline unit.
The Zero Line co-founder added that Major Robert Brovdi, known as Madyar, had put it very simply by saying there had to be a system. He said that when Americans asked which drone was the best, Brovdi had replied that the best one was the ecosystem. Flanagan noted that DELTA had not only built an ecosystem, but had also shown what was necessary to build such a system, teaching others that they needed to understand how Ukraine had managed to achieve this.
He also said that the decision to authorize and adopt DELTA had meant more than the technology that lay at its core.
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