Palantir Launches Maven Smart System - the True "Brain" of Modern Warfare

It turns bombing into a task management process similar to playing a computer game.

You open a map with real-time satellite data, select a target, and the system immediately draws the strike radius outline, recommends the optimal weapon - from missiles to aerial bombs - and generates a mission card.

All content is in a unified interface, allowing commanders to see the complete kill chain from detection to strike.

Maven Smart System is a SaaS platform launched by Palantir, fully deployed across all U.S. military systems.

It integrates data streams from hundreds of sources, including drones, satellites, sensors, and intercepted communications.

Work that once required thousands of analysts to process over hours is now completed by AI within minutes.

This has already been validated in Iran.

In the first 24 hours of the "Epic Fury" operation, the system assisted in striking 1,000 targets, twice the number struck during the same period in Iraq's "Shock and Awe" operation in 2003. By day 10, the total number of targets reached 5,000. Its goal is to achieve 1,000 strikes per hour.

The entire process is presented in a kanban format.

Task cards move between columns labeled "Discovered," "Prioritized," "In Progress," and "Completed."

Each card contains: GPS coordinates, weapon recommendations, damage assessment, and even automatically generated legal compliance statements under international law.

Drone or satellite video is live-streamed until the moment of impact.

Commanders view the entire battlefield from a god-like perspective, like playing a strategy game: seeing the whole battlefield, issuing commands with one click, and minimizing errors as much as possible.

This has completely changed the nature of warfare.

Palantir has significantly increased U.S. military capability: accelerating decision-making, reducing human factors, and improving precision.

2 operators + Maven = 2,000 top-tier military intelligence analysts.

The system is not fully automatic - humans always take responsibility for final strike confirmation,

but AI completes 90% of the work: identifying, sorting, and providing solutions.

After integrating with Anthropic's Claude large model, the system also gains reasoning capabilities: it doesn't just "see" targets, but also understands the situation, threats, and consequences.

For the United States, this is a decisive advantage. While Iran is still trying to retaliate with scattered missiles, Maven has already given the U.S. military an overwhelming advantage in speed and scale.

This is not the future - this is the present: warfare as a service, where the speed at which data is converted into strikes is so fast that enemies cannot react.

Palantir does not sell weapons, but the ability to dominate the battlefield.

Iran has become a test field for the U.S. to demonstrate this dominance. It all looks like a game: one player sees the entire map, while the other can only see the smoke after explosions.

The world is entering an era where war is decided by software, not just steel. Maven proves one thing: whoever controls data and AI controls the battlefield.

The advantage the U.S. has gained can now be measured in "destroying thousands of targets in days," rather than months.

For China, this is an unprecedented challenge.

Original article: toutiao.com/article/1859690287633420/

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