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<a href="https://theaviationist.com/2022/03/23/ukrainian-captured-krasukha-4/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://theaviationist.com/2022/03/23/ukrainian-captured-krasukha-4/</a><br>
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<a href="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" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">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</a><br>
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On 3/23/22 07:32, Steve Smith wrote:<br>
> Marcus shared:<br>
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>> Steve wrote:<br>
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>> “Their offices are in Kiev... they are likely doing advanced skunkworks resistance projects in their labs right now... “<br>
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>> <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/starlink-helps-ukraines-elite-drone-unit-target-and-destroy-russian-tanks/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/starlink-helps-ukraines-elite-drone-unit-target-and-destroy-russian-tanks/</a><br>
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>> < The Ukrainian unit's "most sophisticated drones are connected using Starlink," The Times of London <<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/specialist-drone-unit-picks-off-invading-forces-as-they-sleep-zlx3dj7bb" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/specialist-drone-unit-picks-off-invading-forces-as-they-sleep-zlx3dj7bb</a>> 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.><br>
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> And a Drone entry in the "Dove" column opposite the "Hawk" column:<br>
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> <a href="https://draganfly.com/news/draganfly-receives-order-for-critical-lifesaving-drones-from-revived-soldiers-ukraine-for-immediate-deployment-to-ukraine/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://draganfly.com/news/draganfly-receives-order-for-critical-lifesaving-drones-from-revived-soldiers-ukraine-for-immediate-deployment-to-ukraine/</a><br>
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> and as is inevitable (IMO), the Red Queen steps up her pace again:<br>
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> <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/watch-anti-drone-weapons-test/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/story/watch-anti-drone-weapons-test/</a><br>
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> <<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race</a>><br>
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> Driving us (inexorably) up the increasing slope of the (assumed/imagined) technological singularity?<br>
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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.<br>
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> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End</a><br>
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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).<br>
> <br>
> 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.<br>
> <br>
> I would be curious to hear others' opinions here about the larger context and implications of the Evolutionary Theoretic Red Queen Hypothesis:<br>
> <br>
> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis</a><br>
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