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https://theaviationist.com/2022/03/23/ukrainian-captured-krasukha-4/

https://www.armyrecognition.com/russia_russian_military_field_equipment/krasukha-4_1rl257_broadband_multifunctional_jamming_station_electronic_warfare_system_technical_data_sheet_pictures_video_10610156.html


On 3/23/22 07:32, Steve Smith wrote:
> Marcus shared:
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>> Steve wrote:
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>> “Their offices are in Kiev... they are likely doing advanced skunkworks resistance projects in their labs right now... “
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>> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/starlink-helps-ukraines-elite-drone-unit-target-and-destroy-russian-tanks/
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>> < 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.>
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> And a Drone entry in the "Dove" column opposite the "Hawk" column:
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>     https://draganfly.com/news/draganfly-receives-order-for-critical-lifesaving-drones-from-revived-soldiers-ukraine-for-immediate-deployment-to-ukraine/
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> and as is inevitable (IMO), the Red Queen steps up her pace again:
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>     https://www.wired.com/story/watch-anti-drone-weapons-test/
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>     <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race>
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> Driving us (inexorably) up the increasing slope of the (assumed/imagined) technological singularity?
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> Vernor Vinge's early 2000s whimsical view of experiencing that slope is a fascinating reflection, now (only slightly) dated, and somewhat prophetic.
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>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End
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> and a handful of related shorts, novellas, etc. set in the same imagined future (overlapping the lived now we are in).
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> 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.
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> I would be curious to hear others' opinions here about the larger context and implications of the Evolutionary Theoretic Red Queen Hypothesis:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis


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