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British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms (www.gov.uk)
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  • UK-made, invisible radio wave weapon knocks out drone swarms for the first time.
  • Weapon has potential to help protect against drone threats as nature of warfare changes.
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[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So when can we start shipping them to Ukraine? Even from a selfish perspective its a perfect environment to field test this.

[–] scholar@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I would imagine that a demonstration unit has already been sent

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Warzone's always the best environment to test new battlefield systems.

Look at the difference in technology between the beginning of the first world war and the end. We started off with essentially standing in fields shooting each other over distances you could spit, and ended up with tanks. The second world war gave us nukes.

Will probably have AGI battle droids by the end of this war.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Nah, interesting point from Issac Arthur that the dumbest AI always wins assuming both are complex enough to do the job, the dumb one will have less processing delay to make each decision.