Ukraine used ArduPilot to help it wipe out Russian targets. It wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last.

Open source software used by hobbyist drones powered an attack that wiped out a third of Russia’s strategic long range bombers on Sunday afternoon, in one of the most daring and technically coordinated attacks in the war.

In broad daylight on Sunday, explosions rocked air bases in Belaya, Olenya, and Ivanovo in Russia, which are hundreds of miles from Ukraine. The Security Services of Ukraine’s (SBU) Operation Spider Web was a coordinated assault on Russian targets it claimed was more than a year in the making, which was carried out using a nearly 20-year-old piece of open source drone autopilot software called ArduPilot.

ArduPilot’s original creators were in awe of the attack. “That’s ArduPilot, launched from my basement 18 years ago. Crazy,” Chris Anderson said in a comment on LinkedIn below footage of the attack.

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    4 days ago

    Your problem is that you assume Ukraine is innocent. They’re not. They’re the antagonists. They knew Putin can’t resist pushing forward when they antagonize him further so they keep doing it to keep the flow of income from completely unrelated countries so the whack-job Zelenskyy, along with his backers and partners, can keep living like kings.

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        2 days ago

        An invader is not automatically the antagonist or the only antagonist.

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            20 hours ago

            Not sure what kind of non-argument trap you’re trying to set but I’m not playing your game.

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                7 hours ago

                Don’t waste my time, we both know it is more than that.

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                  6 hours ago

                  It seems like you don’t want to admit that this whole thing would not be happening if Russia either didn’t invade another country, or stopped invading.

                  Given you can’t bring yourself to acknowledge core facts that don’t match your view points, we are at an impasse and as you said, I shouldn’t waste time trying to talk to a brick wall. I’m just going to block you.