A Ukrainian national guard brigade just orchestrated an all-robot combined-arms operation, mixing crawling and flying drones for an assault on Russian positions in Kharkiv Oblast in northern Ukraine.
War has changed.
It’s no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It’s an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines.
War–and it’s consumption of life–has become a well-oiled machine.
War has changed.
ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities.
Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control…everything is monitored and kept under control.
War…has changed.
The age of deterrence has become the age of control, all in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction, and he who controls the battlefield, controls history.
War…has changed.
When the battlefield is under total control, war becomes routine.
You’re pretty good.
War, war always changes.
Ukraine is once again a large training ground for trying out what modern warfare will look like.
Let’s hope this quality of robots helps them equalise against Russian quantity of bodies.
I can’t believe you’ve managed to make me root for the robots in a robot vs human war
Turns out the robots were the good guys, defending their owners from an invasion.
Putin made you do that.
They have also proven that war doesn’t really change. It came back down to artillery rounds and who has the most stockpiled.
There’s a TON for any country to learn from the war of Russian Aggression. As a US citizen I certainly hope it means we stop investing in billion dollar drones when $500 DJI drones with some C4 work 40Xs better.
I disagree - but just because we have some BADASS pieces of tech in our arsenal
For the cost of 1 of those missiles we can buy 47 155mm artillery shells. I love our precision systems and the unique capacity it allows the US to operate in. However financially it’s not sustainable and clearly those expensive missiles aren’t what Ukraine was asking for as much as artillery shells.
We need to be more strategic about how much we spend on defense for fear of crumbling under the weight of our own finances.
Yes! Better fiscal defense planning is in our best interest. We run a large amount on war economy which is unsustainable long term. It’s starting to look like Russia at some defense contractors - pocket the money and keep promising tech that can’t deliver. We can’t keep slipping or eventually you’re at the bottm
I have some bad news for you about where those DJI drones come from and what country has the manufacturing capacity to make them.
Author of this post is really down on the Ukrainian outlook, wasn’t expecting that.
EMPs inbound.
Future war is terrifying
I’ve seen this episode of Black Mirror
