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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Steve Smith<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 23, 2022 7:32 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> friam@redfish.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: We just launched Russian Asset Tracker, most complete database to date<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Marcus shared:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Steve wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“Their offices are in Kiev... they are likely doing advanced skunkworks resistance projects in their labs right now... “<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/starlink-helps-ukraines-elite-drone-unit-target-and-destroy-russian-tanks/">https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/starlink-helps-ukraines-elite-drone-unit-target-and-destroy-russian-tanks/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">< The Ukrainian unit's "most sophisticated drones are connected using Starlink,"
<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/specialist-drone-unit-picks-off-invading-forces-as-they-sleep-zlx3dj7bb">
The Times of London</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.><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>And a Drone entry in the "Dove" column opposite the "Hawk" column:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><a href="https://draganfly.com/news/draganfly-receives-order-for-critical-lifesaving-drones-from-revived-soldiers-ukraine-for-immediate-deployment-to-ukraine/">https://draganfly.com/news/draganfly-receives-order-for-critical-lifesaving-drones-from-revived-soldiers-ukraine-for-immediate-deployment-to-ukraine/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>and as is inevitable (IMO), the Red Queen steps up her pace again:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/watch-anti-drone-weapons-test/">https://www.wired.com/story/watch-anti-drone-weapons-test/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race"><span style="text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="449" height="284" style="width:4.6785in;height:2.9583in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Alice_queen2.jpg/450px-Alice_queen2.jpg"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Driving us (inexorably) up the increasing slope of the (assumed/imagined) technological singularity?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Vernor Vinge's early 2000s whimsical view of experiencing that slope is a fascinating reflection, now (only slightly) dated, and somewhat prophetic.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>and a handful of related shorts, novellas, etc. set in the same imagined future (overlapping the lived now we are in).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I would be curious to hear others' opinions here about the larger context and implications of the Evolutionary Theoretic Red Queen Hypothesis:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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