Previously (79 points, 8 hours ago, 50 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44150789
(35 points, 6 hours ago, 27 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44151327
> "Russia bombs schools and hospitals.
> Ukraine bombs the planes that bomb schools and hospitals."
Big couple of years for intel organizations. The beepers in Lebanon and now this.
They wanted nothing to do with this war. Putin invaded a peaceful country that was defenseless. The West dragged its feet, and it took far too long to help with conventional weapons. It forced Ukraine to work without tanks, artillery, Fighter Jets, etc. They innovated and changed warfare forever.
What a favor they did for the USA and the West in general. We owe them eternal gratitude.
Glory to Ukraine
The sheer waste and cost of this war is astonishing.
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Whether or not they succeeded (and their claims generally do not prove to be exaggerated, so I suspect they did) they just shook up the world's militaries. I doubt there's a base in the world that's truly secure against this sort of attack.
And I don't see any reason to suggest AI being involved here. GPS to an initial point, follow a specified bearing and do image recognition. Note the angle at which you are seeing the image, if it doesn't change as you move you're looking at an image, ignore it. This would fall for any reasonably fancy decoy, but that's not going to be enough to protect the facility.
I've been saying this for years: with pretty much everything military a bunch of cheap units will give you far more bang for your buck than the same value of expensive units. It used to be that since units required operators you would have a big problem with personnel (although we did see the Kamikazes in Japan), but now that it's a microchip running it that's no longer a factor.