19 June 2025
France's Parrot SA showed its new ANAFI UKR micro-drone at the Paris Air Show 2025.
The next generation of the company's ANAFI USA drone, the ANAFI UKR weighs approximately two pounds, can utilize AI to act as an autopilot for UAVs, and will fly up to minutes without a GPS signal (56 minutes total).
“When the war in Ukraine started, and electronic warfare became a huge issue with GPS jamming and spoofing and electromagnetic environments that were totally messed up,” said Parrot drone software manager Marie Calleux. “And we said, ‘Well, let's make a drone for that.'”
The ANAFI UKR can remain fully operational in a global navigation satellite system-denied environment, as well as in hostile electromagnetic conditions—thanks to its optical navigation, anti-spoofing with frequency-hopping military radio, and cybersecurity tech.
“It can fly without GPS, and it can fly totally disconnected,” said Calleux, who also revealed the drone can even read maps.
“It comes with an internal memory," she added, "so the military, police, or government agency can plug in their maps, and the drone knows how to read them. It can do this while connected to radios, wifi, satellite connections, or offline, and come back with the data that you want."
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