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I spoke with a friend who consults for the DOJ about this. A few of the things he shared: 1. This is a "slow news day" thing. There is so much drone traffic th
by debacle 2y ago
I spoke with a friend who consults for the DOJ about this. A few of the things he shared:
1. This is a "slow news day" thing. There is so much drone traffic that people never see, mostly from commercial actors, and this phenomenon has been going on for over a year now.
2. There is absolutely a risk of asymmetric engagements through drone warfare (in fact, this is part of the reason Ukraine has been as successful as they have been).
3. Drone jammers don't work for sophisticated drones. They have onboard AI (not LLM) and can navigate autonomously within areas where they aren't piloted in very complex ways.
He was very bearish on there being an easy fix for increasing drone traffic. Commercial entities don't want the regulation, and it's too cheap for someone to flaunt the law.
- tw04 2y agoIf I’m China, I’m funding cheap drones into Europe and the US. Eventually I can use all that video to build models to allow attack drones to function without any need for an external connection at all. But that’s just me…
- jvanderbot 2y agoIf you believe you are the first to think of this I have news for you. Very briefly I worked with a drone company who is in Ukraine, and trust me, if you can imagine it, it's been tried and used.
- red-iron-pine 2y ago> 1. This is a "slow news day" thing. There is so much drone traffic that people never see, mostly from commercial actors, and this phenomenon has been going on for over a year now. It's not slow news, it's "people are shooting CEOs", and "billionaire-backed felon president is on track to dismantle the US" -- they want to distract from that. It's like how every time there is unrest in the US there seems to be an Area 51 or UFO discussion, and every single time, to include Congressional Hearings, they're nothingburgers. It's a distraction ploy.