Finally found an open source project I'd be proud to contribute to.
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The shelves of your nearest hobby store hold the weapons of the future, with only a minimal cost. And that’s terrifying.
~~terrifying~~ empowering
ftfy
No, definitely terrifying. War should be costly and terrible. That’s the only reason it isn’t more common, that its cost is objectionable. Pax economica, while flawed, is more subjective than ever before. And I do not like that.
War is costly and terrible, and it always will be, regardless of the magnitude of resources required to wage war.
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War should be costly and terrible
and it still is and it will be
that's the point, more often that not, to take money and burn it while producing more fuel for propaganda
not saying that's whats happening in Ukraine, but this has happened a ton in the past and will continue
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Well, there is the whole payload aspect you need to figure out.
If you have that figured out, the rest is and has always been relatively trivial in comparison.
The trucks in the videos clearly never went through any check of the cargo. Could have had a simple trebuchet design in there and haul some explosives onto the airfield.
Yeah, that's something I feel like is being taken out of context. It's the getting the explosives within range of the planes that was impressive to me. They could have had mortars/rockets/etc. and probably done similar damage at that range.
I'm sure drones increase the success rate, but it wasn't drones that made that operation a success from my understanding.
The cargo area had a false ceiling didn't it? Like I saw one that looked like you could open the back of the 'trailer' but there was a fake ceiling with the drones above that.
Afaik they had fake ceilings yeah. However noone that would bother to look, would be tricked by fake ceilings. That trick exists since horse carriages. The fake ceilings only give the driver some deniability.
"That's ArduPilot, launched from my basement 18 years ago. Crazy,” Chris Anderson said...
One hell of an achievement to put in your resume.
Incredible. Watching the evolution of this technology is frightening.
Vietnam first televised, gulf first shown, now Ukraine i can look at the last moments of a conscripted Russian from an office chair. Insane.
Fucking world keeps it interesting. Morbidly.
Despite the name ArduPilot it appears to be based on Raspberry Pi:
https://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/ardupilot-and-blueos-for-companion-computers/134879
The hardware is built on top of this:
https://www.seeedstudio.com/Ochin-Tiny-Carrier-Board-V2-for-Raspberry-Pi-CM4-p-5887.html
Very impressive project, based on several other open source projects.
It's amazing how you can develop projects of such sophistication both cheap and fast, exclusively based on opensource. 👍😀
Imagine the time and cost it would take, if Ukraine had to build this from the bottom!
If it was an American manufacturer, it would probably be a billion dollar project.
Edit PS:
Although this seems well documented, this is probably not a beginner project.
But for a team with some previous knowledge of working with similar things, I bet it's relatively easy.
It primarily runs on STM32 microcontrollers. Hardware ranges from $200 whoop quads to six figure, professional grade aircraft.
It supports other hardware including more "embedded" systems. I've run it on a RasPi clone and on an F4 Clone
That's wild, I was just reading about blueos for a project and that's what they used? These kids are so fucking impressive
We need more. We should all keep the effective strategies quiet and secret. That way they can be used again and again.
Open source FTW!
An incredible a feat, and this is it’s a pretty terrifying new way to conduct warfare.
Can you imagine if they had to license it? lol
Ohhh sorryyyy. We would LOVE to support your attack which will be unprecedented in modern warfare… if only there wasn’t this tiny little eensy-weensy license ‘issue’. We’ve moved to a subscription for your drone warfare software. Per device. You can save 10% if you subscribe for a year. Early termination fee applies. To cancel you’ll have to call and attempt the phone labyrinth. $19.99/min.
I'm now imagining a scenario in which the democratic nations of the world are in a war against oligarchs with corporate armies, and the corpos losing due to their hardware having licensing issues. Like the corpos are so addicted to fucking people over they can't help but fuck their allies over.
Yeah, I doubt there's many commercial options for drone swarm plane destruction. Who is this for?
Well drone strike would make quite a fun game too
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