They absolutely have a lot more equipment and more importantly they have ammo for it, our mortars and most of artillery is literally useless or semi-useless due to not having ammo to fire with. They have aerial superiority and use it effectively (missiles, aerial bombs). They have both ballistic and cruise missiles and produce a lot of them. They produce a lot of long range aerial drones (shahed/geran) they have bigger explosives and have advanced capabilities like forming a mesh network and working as retranslators, shorter range ones are better as well we actually copied lightning and they are already moving on producing newer version. These days armor is almost useless, front line is oversaturated with drones. As for the drones, they have a huge edge in fiberoptics drones (was obvious that we need to move in this direction as well from the start), also they just have a lot more of them with better range. Most of their newer drones have optical stabilisation, 'ai' features powered by orangepis and the like. Also partially just my bad luck that their best pilots are close as well (rubicon).
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Had zero problems with orca.
Assuming that AGI will have the same thought process and incentives similar to ours what exactly 'getting on the internet' entails? Unless it would be able to run on extremely anemic hardware and remake itself to work on a network of abandoned IoT shit there is little possivle escape routes and getting out of the box.
Even working FPVs are almost universally reprogrammed (sometimes it's detrimental) with milbeta even when they are already come with it. All UGVs are reworked as well. It's not such a big jump from reworking drones to making them to be honest.
Something like this was a plot point in '12 monkeys' main character neede to call some random number to send information into future.
There is a non-zero chance that this person won't live long enough to see that scary tomorrow due to scary today that requires this technology.
You don't need a secretive venture run by shadowy cabal of evildoers to make "ai" drones. It does not take a lot to make one, most of the things (software side) are open source and free, most of the hardware is cheap and ubiquitous. Fuck kremlin and their circles hope they all die horribly inluding immediate families.
I want to be an electrical engineer.
What exactly is it going to do when 'on the internet', why would it feel the need to escape the box? All material that I've seen previously regarding this theme was either "our product is so good it's dangewrous (openai with gpt2)", "I'm so smart, insert some absolutely impossible scenario, this is why we should completely ban computers (modern philosophers)"
How can they 'self-preserve' exactly? This story in various forms was repeated for years and always sounded extremely artificial and cultish.
We haven't seen tank for over a year in our area of responsibility neither ours not theirs. There are enough of them tanks and APCs, yet they are rapidly becoming obsolete (it's temporary for this iteration probably) noone wants to get into them due to them veing death traps at the moment. Bohdana is great and there is a lot of them being produced, yet there is a lot of them being destroyed as well. Still hugeproblem with ammo remains. For the fiberoptics it's one of those fields where numbers are extremely important and they can push out a lot of drones 3 maybe 5 times more and they make longer range ones as well. We might regain some edge in fpv with move to digital from analogue video (using retranslators and openipc). We have a lot of cool shit true, but numbers are on r*ssian side.
absolutely not applicable to this war and is failing to modernize currently, german (maybe it's just them and other countries are different who knows) basic training is insanely out of touch with reality and promotes mid 20 century shit that absolutely ignores things like mavics and recon drones in general, has worse personal eqipment (was shoked tbh).