[FRIAM] Fwd: We just launched Russian Asset Tracker, most complete database to date

[Marcus Daniels]

I think an effective product would be to configure trucks that could launch hundreds of loitering munitions at a time and feed them near-live imagery from Starlink or a similar constellation.   Then it is a matter of closing in on signatures of radar systems, tanks, soldiers, etc.    The current cost of the munitions is only like $70k a piece.   Swarming them, expecting attrition, would enable aggressive tactics.   As a numbers game, soldiers with shotguns would have little chance.  The bigger players still would have the advantage because they could afford more attrition.

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Steve Smith
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Marcus shared:
Steve wrote:

“Their offices are in Kiev... they are likely doing advanced skunkworks resistance projects in their labs right now... “

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/starlink-helps-ukraines-elite-drone-unit-target-and-destroy-russian-tanks/

< The Ukrainian unit's "most sophisticated drones are connected using Starlink," The Times of London<https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/specialist-drone-unit-picks-off-invading-forces-as-they-sleep-zlx3dj7bb> wrote. "If we use a drone with thermal vision at night, the drone must connect through Starlink to the artillery guy and create target acquisition," an Aerorozvidka officer told the paper.>

And a Drone entry in the "Dove" column opposite the "Hawk" column:

https://draganfly.com/news/draganfly-receives-order-for-critical-lifesaving-drones-from-revived-soldiers-ukraine-for-immediate-deployment-to-ukraine/

and as is inevitable (IMO), the Red Queen steps up her pace again:

https://www.wired.com/story/watch-anti-drone-weapons-test/
[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Alice_queen2.jpg/450px-Alice_queen2.jpg]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race>

Driving us (inexorably) up the increasing slope of the (assumed/imagined) technological singularity?

Vernor Vinge's early 2000s whimsical view of experiencing that slope is a fascinating reflection, now (only slightly) dated, and somewhat prophetic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End

and a handful of related shorts, novellas, etc. set in the same imagined future (overlapping the lived now we are in).

Vinge (IMO) is classified as one of the SF writers whose credentials as working scientists (Math/CS in his case) suggests a certain credibility to their fiction.  He retired from San Diego State CS in 2000 I think, having contributed a great deal of proto-cyberpunk fiction to the canon starting as early as 1991.

I would be curious to hear others' opinions here about the larger context and implications of the Evolutionary Theoretic Red Queen Hypothesis:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis







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