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[saying without prejudice, just using real example to illustrate the power of tech company, or even a single person like in this case, behind locked-in tech] B

by trhway 2y ago

[saying without prejudice, just using real example to illustrate the power of tech company, or even a single person like in this case, behind locked-in tech] Back then Elon Musk refused to turn the Starlink on on the Black Sea and the Ukrainian drones weren't able to perform the planned attack on the Russian Navy ships there (the situation later was rectified by Pentagon itself directly contracting some of the Startlink terminals or something along these lines) In general the modern weaponry is very complicated and Western tanks and artillery systems would be transported to Poland from Ukraine for service and repair. I think recently they tried to establish a repair base in Ukraine, yet i'm wondering whether the growing complexity of the hardware may make the "right-to-repair" issue closer to moot in larger part. I mean the right-to-repair in civilian case allows independent companies to provide repairs, while i don't see any practical way for such independent companies in the military case.

worik 2y ago
> In general the modern weaponry is very complicated No It is bad design As another commenter commented the ability to repair in the field, in adverse conditions, should be a design criterion.
- trhway 2y ago
  The way things go there would be almost no people in the field, just drones of all kinds and occasional stormtrooper teams in extremely expensive stealth cloaks. Basically no human would be able to exist in the environment with several thousand drones per kilometer. And I don’t think much of these drones are going to be repaired , more like smartphones - nobody repairs them. By the way, extremely important part, becoming even bigger and more important - the massive scale battlefield data intelligence gathering, including from all those drones, processing and targeting is done in Ukraine by Palantir in major part by their people deployed there. There is no real right-to-repair or ability to repair in the field when it comes to such software (or to communication networks like Starlink). With that background it is really small peanuts, which will take all the attention away from important things, whether soldiers can replace on their own an RFID-ed DRM-ed valve in the howitzer blowback hydraulics.

by trhway 2y ago

worik 2y ago

> In general the modern weaponry is very complicated No It is bad design As another commenter commented the ability to repair in the field, in adverse conditions, should be a design criterion.

trhway 2y ago
The way things go there would be almost no people in the field, just drones of all kinds and occasional stormtrooper teams in extremely expensive stealth cloaks. Basically no human would be able to exist in the environment with several thousand drones per kilometer. And I don’t think much of these drones are going to be repaired , more like smartphones - nobody repairs them. By the way, extremely important part, becoming even bigger and more important - the massive scale battlefield data intelligence gathering, including from all those drones, processing and targeting is done in Ukraine by Palantir in major part by their people deployed there. There is no real right-to-repair or ability to repair in the field when it comes to such software (or to communication networks like Starlink). With that background it is really small peanuts, which will take all the attention away from important things, whether soldiers can replace on their own an RFID-ed DRM-ed valve in the howitzer blowback hydraulics.