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AI drones are changing warfare — but they’re easy to sabotage, and a Brooklyn engineer wants to change that

Nypost · 🇺🇦 public Ukraine · · 379 words · By Lydia Moynihan
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AI drones are changing warfare — but they’re easy to sabotage, and a Brooklyn engineer wants to change that See more of our coverage in your search results.

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AI drones are changing warfare — but they’re easy to sabotage, and a Brooklyn engineer wants to change that See more of our coverage in your search results.

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- Brian Streem, CEO of Vermeer, developed a Visual Positioning System for drone navigation.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Exaggeration / Hyperbole: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://nypost.com/2026/05/29/business/ai-drones-are-changing-warfare-but-theyre…

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Claim 1: “Brian Streem, CEO of Vermeer, developed a Visual Positioning System for drone navigation.”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that Brian Streem is the founder/CEO of Vermeer and that the company develops a Visual Positioning System (VPS) for drones.
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web search NEUTRAL — Oct 23, 2025 ... Founded in 2018 by Brian Streem, Vermeer develops Visual Positioning Systems (VPS), technology that enables drones and other autonomous ...
https://vestbee.com/insights/articles/vermeer-raises-funds
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web search NEUTRAL — Dec 11, 2024 ... In this episode, we speak with Brian Streem, Founder and CEO of Vermeer, about his journey from film production to pioneering drone ...
https://theverticalspace.net/episode/81-brian-streem-vermeer…
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web search NEUTRAL — Oct 23, 2025 ... The funding round was led by Draper Associates. Vermeer's product is called Visual Positioning System (VPS) that leverages artificial ...
https://www.defensedaily.com/computer-vision-navigation-star…
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Claim 2: “He has also created a vision-based navigation system (Visual Positioning System or VPS) that relies on electro-optical or infrared cameras feeding an onboard NVIDIA edge computer.”
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Multiple web search results confirm the technical specifications of the VPS, including the use of electro-optical/infrared cameras and an onboard NVIDIA computer.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 29, 2026 · He has also created a vision-based navigation system (Visual Positioning System or VPS) that relies on electro-optical or infrared cameras ...
https://nypost.com/2026/05/29/business/ai-drones-are-changin…
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web search NEUTRAL — He has also created a vision-based navigation system (Visual Positioning System or VPS) that relies on electro-optical or infrared cameras feeding an onboard ...
https://www.aol.com/articles/ai-drones-changing-warfare-easy…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 27, 2026 · Vermeer builds a Visual Positioning System, or VPS, that bolts electro-optical and infrared cameras to an onboard Nvidia computer and matches ...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ilan-technology-and-aviation-…
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Claim 3: “Long-range Shahed-style attack drones costing $50,000 are built to fly thousands of miles”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant search results (MBC Shahid) and general Wikipedia entries on loitering munitions and the Yelabuga factory. There is no specific evidence in the provided text confirming the $50,000 cost or the specific range of Shahed-style drones.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A loitering munition (LM) is a type of self-destructive unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with a warhead that is typically designed to remotely loiter by a human operator using electro-optical ta…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loitering_munition
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A one-way attack drone (OWA-UAV or OWA drone) is a type of self-destructive unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed to strike a target by crashing into it with an integrated warhead. Common terms like …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_attack_drone
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Yelabuga drone factory (Russian: Елабужский завод беспилотников) is a Russian arsenal factory within the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Tatarstan. Operated by the Russian company Albatross, the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelabuga_drone_factory
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Claim 4: “Streem’s tech is already deployed in Ukraine”
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Multiple sources explicitly state that Vermeer's technology is being tested and deployed in Ukraine.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The art of Europe, also known as Western art, encompasses the history of visual art in Europe. European prehistoric art started as mobile Upper Paleolithic rock and cave painting and petroglyph art an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_Europe
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century, during and after the later part of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) for…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Golden_Age_painting
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Microsoft Office, MS Office, or simply Office, is an office suite and (formerly) a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. The first version of the Office suit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office
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Claim 5: “it costs around $20,000 to add his VPS to drones”
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Only one specific source ('Vermeer Bets American Strike Drones Are Useless Without A GPS') mentions the $20,000 cost for the camera-and-AI kit. Other sources discuss the technology but do not mention this specific price point.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Microsoft Office, MS Office, or simply Office, is an office suite and (formerly) a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. The first version of the Office suit…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In visual arts, composition (meaning "putting together") is the organization of an artwork. It is often used interchangeably with various terms such as design, form, visual ordering, or formal structu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_(visual_arts)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by stru…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar
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Claim 6: “The system performs real-time terrain matching, celestial navigation, and terminal guidance against pre-loaded maps.”
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Two separate web search results explicitly state that the system performs real-time terrain matching, celestial navigation, and terminal guidance against pre-loaded maps.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 29, 2026 ... ... Vermeer. The system performs real-time terrain matching, celestial navigation, and terminal guidance against pre-loaded maps. The company is ...
https://nypost.com/2026/05/29/business/ai-drones-are-changin…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jan 5, 2026 ... But some new Ukrainian drones, once locked on a target, can use A.I. to chase and strike it — with no further human involvement. This is the ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/magazine/ukraine-ai-drone…
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web search NEUTRAL — " Vermeer. The system performs real-time terrain matching, celestial navigation, and terminal guidance against pre-loaded maps. The company is also adding ...
https://www.aol.com/articles/ai-drones-changing-warfare-easy…
info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.