#Drone Warfare

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October 7, 2023 - Palestinian freedom fighters take out weapons of the Israeli occupation using drones. [video]/[video]

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@saturniandragon ADRAAAAA!!!

Pindad's gone off the deep end again! ... they smooshed an 5.56 AR and a drone jammer together! They're calling it the Silent Paralyzing Weapon Series 1 (aka SPS-1).

It has to weigh a ungodly amount lol. I would not want to be the poor sap that has to lug this thing around.

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Understanding Drone Warfare in Ukraine

Drone warfare is a complex and nuanced topic with drones used for information gathering, observation and direct attacks. The war in Ukraine has seen an explosion in drone use ranging from small commercial DJI Mavics to military grade drones like the Bayraktar TB-2. I'm joined by author and journalist David Hambling who has been tracking and writing about drone use in Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February 2022.

Check out the accompanying blog here.

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Drone Warfare

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Gorgon Stare

Wide-array surveillance sensor system,

Ever-loyal bodyguard of Hera in Fallujah night,

Your head was born chopped off; no curse,

No pegasus springs from your bleeding neck.

The garden's apples are devoured; you must fetch more.

O lidless monster; weapon in the audiovisual hand

Of Perseus; with your eyes we will set free

Our black, combustible Andromeda welling up

Outside the city caught in your telescopic lenses.

TJ Eckelburg of the desert storm,

Can God motion-capture 100 square kilometers

At once? Freeze in your gaze Leviathan, Cetus,

Whatever else Poseidon sent against an empire's hubris,

Make stone and metadata out of monsters from the deep.

Who trained and armed them? To what end?

All things beyond your operational framework.

Come on baby, don't fear the Reaper; after all,

He's only watching.

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ANDURIL INDUSTRIES INTRODUCES THE PULSAR FAMILY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WARFAR SYSTEMS

Anduril Industries has recently introduced the Pulsar: Family of Electromagnetic Warfare Systems. Anduril Industries state ” Anduril Industries is excited to announce Pulsar, a first-of-its-kind family of modular, multi-mission-capable electromagnetic warfare (EW) systems that utilize artificial intelligence at the tactical edge to rapidly identify and defeat current and future threats across…

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Combat Vets from Ukraine Explain Drone Warfare, Trench Warfare and More

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🇾🇪🇺🇸🚨💥YEMENI RESISTANCE TAKES DOWN US MQ9 REAPER WITH MISSILE OVER YEMENI TERRITORIAL WATERS💥

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Gorgeous piece of writing. Note that multiple notes credit this piece with affecting their decisions around joining the military and which employers to pursue.

your nightmares, experienced in infrared, stem from your employment which consists of sitting reclined in a pitch black $4,000,000 pod controlling a similarly priced drone flying silently an ocean away. with the click of a rigorously engineered tactile button on your joystick, you immediately reduce an illiterate tribesman, with his broken kalashnikov & 8 bullets, into forty unrecognizable meat chunks across an acre of baking desert. you administered a similar execution to everyone standing around him; you tell yourself they were certainly terrorist accomplices but you know in the back of your head that you just iced some women and children & did so within eyeshot of many more women and children. a pal gives you high five as you hit 1600 kills today after climbing out of the pod at 5:00, no longer resembling anything that could be construed as a human in any conceivable way

on the drive home your thought pattern can be characterized by the couple of seconds of scratchy silence that plays from the last few grooves of a vinyl record after the album is finished. walking through the front doors of your newly purchased mcmansion in the suburbs of virginia, you kiss your wife and tell her you love her in a way that is somehow even less genuine than a bird or dog trained to do the same. you silently eat dinner with your increasingly estranged & bizarre acting children, maintaining the line silence in your head.

shortly thereafter this head will lie against a pillow where it will remain motionless for hours, not deviating from this line silence for even a moment. the stimulus of a dark room, heavy covers, and a warm body wrapped around you has long since failed to provoke a drowsiness response as it does in diurnal mammals. because, you see:

the darkness experienced in your murder capsule at work is no match for any darkness that occurs naturally; it is sealed to a degree rivaling that of the doors in the CDC’s level 4 bioterrorism labs. air kept at exactly 72 degrees fahrenheit & 45% humidity (with similar levels of precision) is pumped in, making your pod indistinguishable from a sensory deprivation tank if it were not for the kill cam and controls that cleverly resemble that which you used as a teenager to play video games developed by people that just so happen to also be involved with the engineering of your pod

most likely the person reading these words right now can emphasize with the distinct feeling one gets after trying to go to sleep after sitting in front of a computer all day. it certainly doesn’t burn many calories and certainly does not help guide our subconscious minds into going to sleep at the correct time. sitting in a reclined, leather bound control chair designed by swedish ergonomists amplifies this problem by orders of magnitude but it is still nothing compared to the unaddressed, festering mental baggage accrued from your time in the pod. the fact your hardened, military-trained body is even capable of sleep more than once a week baffles doctors and maybe even physicists

altogether, the amount of opiates necessary to temporarily alleviate these problems, for a single night, would easily dispatch an adult elephant much less whatever configuration of organic molecules you have become

as you lay, the radio silence in your head slowly breaks as you metaphorically crack the closet door into your mind open. a single beam of conscience thought shines through and reveals the assorted putrefied organs of all your victims, all still shuddering and pulsating and writing like the maggots occupying them. some dismembered vocal cords, divorced from a functioning larynx, resonate to produce an audible scream which still sounds more human than your normal speaking voice

the staggering horror & realization inflicted from this tiny glimpse immediately puts you in some state of shock; you fall unconscious immediately, without retaining any memory of the last few minutes of indescribable hell. this happens every night, this is how you “sleep” now

the nightmares that follow, all perceived through the same infrared filter and overlaid crosshair as seen in your pod, are africanized permutations of what you experience in reality, daily. unbound from the laws of this universe, your experiences of frequent gory murder are free to metastasize into much more horrifying versions of themselves. an account of one of these terrors is omitted as trying to conceptualize what one might entail is a feat admittedly too terrifying for the author of these words

people wonder why, after asking if i would work for lockheed martin, i respond only with a speechless, agitated expression

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Ukrainian drones strike deep into Russian territory, hundreds of miles from the front line

KYIV: Ukraine brought the war into the heart of Russia Saturday morning with drone attacks that local authorities said damaged residential buildings in the city of Kazan in the Tatarstan region, over 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from the front line. The press service of Tatarstan’s governor, Rustam Minnikhanov, said that eight drones attacked the city. Six hit residential buildings, one hit an…

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In a recent military development, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the mass production of attack drones, a strategic move that experts say may reflect deepening ties with Russia. This decision aligns with North Korea's expanding military cooperation with Moscow and raises concerns about technology transfer and regional stability. These drones, designed to strike both land and sea targets, have sparked warnings from South Korea about escalating military risks. Watch the full analysis on how North Korea's growing drone capabilities could reshape regional security dynamics and influence ongoing conflicts.

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Russian drones hunt Ukraine civilians, evidence suggests | BBC News