From the top of my head some of them use different laquer that allows less loss on the fiber = longer distance travel on same battery with a bit bigger payload, they have universal mounts for payload, they have standartized a lot of things, they have just a lot more of them.
Tanks and armor are currently unusable due to drone saturation they just cant move close enough in most places, even regular trucks can’t, we are slowly losing positions due this, when pilots need to move 10-15 kilometers on foot over fields it’s just unsustainable even with logistics handled by robots. We still don’t have domestic production of shells at least not full cycle I think and 4 years into existential war it really a big problem. Artillery is cool and all but there is no answer to fiberoptics drones currently (there literally none except shoot them or something) and they are extremely effective weapon that can be deployed up to 40 kilometers with 50 centimeter accuracy and cost fraction of what single artillery piece costs.
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.
western military doctrine
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).
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).
Had zero problems with orca.
They still have a lot of direct military power. They have better and more equipment (including fpvs), they have a lot of bodies and don’t really care about their long term survival, they have support of china, india and usa (diplomatic only at this time).
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.
transinistria and belarus sorta.
It still worked in the end and yes UVC cameras often ‘work’ without any additional configuration. Not everyone requires simple.
It’s not like there is markdown standard. 🙃
For manufacturers: some other people have other needs e.g. one of the twenty quadrillion toggles. Not that hard to understand.
USB isn’t plug’n’play for a huge range of devices especially on windows and it never was.
Yes.
Yeah, I’ve seen this, cool shit, but in my mechanized brigade aemor crews were literally forced to become pilots of different unmanned vehicles due to bmps and other armor becoming one way ticket. Even modern machines like maxxpro are single use machines (they do work great and actually hold multiple hits) that can return but they are rare. Kozaks, hammers, various toyotas are far more popular for logistics and moving people to and from positions.
Artillery piqued in ww1 we never will return to 5 meterdeep trenches and walls of fire with million shells fired in a single day. 🥴 Not to say it’s useless but they require a lot of time to get going and actually hit something.