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The Ukraine-Russia war largely changed my opinion on this type of stuff. War is still the ultimate leverage. A hostile nation deciding to take you out forces y

The Ukraine-Russia war largely changed my opinion on this type of stuff. War is still the ultimate leverage. A hostile nation deciding to take you out forces you to defend yourself. Russia has shown that quantity largely outweighs quality. I see two reasons for this: 1. Quantity can exhaust supplies. It’s hard to defend yourself when you’re out of ammo or people. 2. Quality is concentrated. It’s easier to destroy and be done with. This type of tech is the future of defense and deterrence. Being able to send hundreds or thousands of smaller drones ensures at least some make it through.

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And the final step is component standardization at the dimensions and interface level.build new cheap systems on the fly using automation and cheap standardized subcomponents. 3 batteries, 1gyro, 1 motor,1 cpu, 1 explosive , wrap it in shrinkwrap,firmware + mission upload and every one can buy it, every can use it, end of world, MOSAICs Forgot the camera. Basically push a cellphone into standardized brick, not to unsimilar too industrial plc bus cards. ps:in picture a bigdog like system built by lego of death: https://github.com/PicassoCT/MOSAIC/blob/master/luaui/images/loadpictures/LoadScreen14.png https://github.com/PicassoCT/MOSAIC/blob/master/luaui/images... pss no reason to not build cruise missile like systems from the same lego.
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  bonus points if you can triangulate the powersource == fuel == explosives equation
LorenPechtel 2y ago
Yup. Look at what's happening in the Black Sea. Russia has a big hammer. It can unquestionably kill a target it decides to kill and Ukraine is basically powerless to prevent that. Ukraine has pinpricks. They have to wait for the best conditions to attack and have no certainty as to whether they can kill their target or not. But the Russian ships can't be wily all the time, they have to sometimes be sitting ducks. And the only weapons Russia has that can engage those sea drones is guns. I believe that in reality you need some of each. Quality fights quality, quantity fights quantity. Quantity does very little against big quality, but big quality does very little against quantity. You want to knock down that LORASM that your radar just picked out of terrain? You need something that can get there fast, drones won't do it.

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And the final step is component standardization at the dimensions and interface level.build new cheap systems on the fly using automation and cheap standardized subcomponents. 3 batteries, 1gyro, 1 motor,1 cpu, 1 explosive , wrap it in shrinkwrap,firmware + mission upload and every one can buy it, every can use it, end of world, MOSAICs Forgot the camera. Basically push a cellphone into standardized brick, not to unsimilar too industrial plc bus cards. ps:in picture a bigdog like system built by lego of death: https://github.com/PicassoCT/MOSAIC/blob/master/luaui/images/loadpictures/LoadScreen14.png https://github.com/PicassoCT/MOSAIC/blob/master/luaui/images... pss no reason to not build cruise missile like systems from the same lego.

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bonus points if you can triangulate the powersource == fuel == explosives equation

LorenPechtel 2y ago

Yup. Look at what's happening in the Black Sea. Russia has a big hammer. It can unquestionably kill a target it decides to kill and Ukraine is basically powerless to prevent that. Ukraine has pinpricks. They have to wait for the best conditions to attack and have no certainty as to whether they can kill their target or not. But the Russian ships can't be wily all the time, they have to sometimes be sitting ducks. And the only weapons Russia has that can engage those sea drones is guns. I believe that in reality you need some of each. Quality fights quality, quantity fights quantity. Quantity does very little against big quality, but big quality does very little against quantity. You want to knock down that LORASM that your radar just picked out of terrain? You need something that can get there fast, drones won't do it.