Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bill Sloman Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:54:08 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 52 Message-ID: <10ldbf7$jvt3$1@dont-email.me> References: <69791e7a$0$24$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <10lb72s$3soqv$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:54:17 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5c4b2936dc4b3c6d6ce7ed2362fa6616"; logging-data="655267"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19JfZ2d8kHcZTg+apQlixWqiIXMNuvsT5Q=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:dDbe2D2HDATV4kAb/txSp8GIr2M= Content-Language: en-US X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 260128-6, 28/1/2026), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com sci.electronics.design:739807 On 28/01/2026 8:46 am, john larkin wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:27:08 -0800, wmartin wrote: > >> On 1/27/26 12:22, bitrex wrote: >>> On 1/27/2026 1:43 PM, john larkin wrote: >>>> >>>> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/magazine/ukraine-ai-drones-war- >>>> russia.html >>>> >>>> >>>> John Larkin >>>> Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center >>>> Lunatic Fringe Electronics >>> >>> "Ukraine has become a fast-feedback, live-fire test range in which arms >>> manufacturers, governments, venture capitalists, frontline units and >>> coders and engineers from around the West collaborate to produce weapons >>> that automate parts of the conventional military kill chain." >>> >>> Coders and engineers falling all over themselves to sell their souls out >>> to the war machine and the State like the filthiest of $2 prostitutes, >>> sad stuff indeed.. >> You think there is something new here? > > What's new is that our robots are killing their robots. > > A $200M fighter jet with a pilot inside can be replaced with a swarm > of cheap expendable things. > > The first country that shuts down its enemies pipelines and power grid > and railroads wins. Russia and the Ukraine do seem to be trying to do that to one another. Neither seems to be doing it effectively enough to knock the other out. People do seem to be pretty good at repairing pipe-lines and power grids and the like. The end-stage of WW2 in Europe was about a year when allied aircraft were knocking out trains all over the German railway system, and while this didn't help the German war effort, the end stage still involved big invading armies basically occupying the whole country. Russia's formal invasion of the Ukraine was an attempt to do just that, and it utterly failed. Russia has spent the last four years inching it's way into the Ukraine from the borders with Russia,and it has made some progress, but it has been very slow and very expensive. -- Bill Sloman, Sydney