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The drones reportedly flew from their containers to the staging area autonomously, where they were taken over by the pilots for the attack approach.
by varjag 1y ago
The drones reportedly flew from their containers to the staging area autonomously, where they were taken over by the pilots for the attack approach.
- bamboozled 1y agoSource?
- varjag 1y agohttps://x.com/lemonodor/status/1929269307189469624 https://x.com/lemonodor/status/1929269307189469624 You can also see the careful departure of drones from containers in the videos, without extra panning or yaw. Not quite how a human operator would fly them.
- AlecSchueler 1y agoThe question was more about the human taking over near the end, no?
- brightbeige 1y agoThread without log-in https://xcancel.com/lemonodor/status/1929269307189469624 https://xcancel.com/lemonodor/status/1929269307189469624
- Maxious 1y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJcjt_W8iCo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJcjt_W8iCo
- Ciantic 1y agoAlso this: https://www.404media.co/ukraines-massive-drone-attack-was-powered-by-open-source-software/ https://www.404media.co/ukraines-massive-drone-attack-was-po... "ArduPilot can handle tasks like stabilizing a drone in the air while the pilot focuses on moving to their next objective. Pilots can switch them into loitering mode, for example, if they need to step away or perform another task, and it has failsafe modes that keep a drone aloft if signal is lost." So it is not fully autonomous.
- originalvichy 1y agoNot for this task, but could be used autonomously. If they trusted that these planes were still in the same spot, and their GPS coordinates were accurate to 10 cm, then what they could do is just program the drones to fly a preset route at preset heights, stop over the plane's wing and then descend all the way to 0 meters.
- mandevil 1y agoEven with that level of target knowledge (I suspect the US has the investment in the sensor-targeting links to be able to use satellites to know within cm where planes were within a five minute window, but am not sure about other nations) you'd want to have some that were available for later re-targeting to handle misses. Nuclear weapons war plans solve this by relentlessly re-targeting again and again (declassified 1960's USAF war plans called for over 70 different missiles to hit Moscow alone) but with the smaller damage radius of conventional weapons you either end up with a second strike to make sure you get all the survivors of the first strike- or have a trained human who knows the targeting priority in the loop available to update targeting on the fly.
- varjag 1y agoGPS can't be relied on in that heavily denied area. And indeed the screenshots show drones in failsafe mode.
- ladyanita22 1y agoSo what about the AI part that has been mentioned by several outlets?
- boxed 1y agoI would assume someone speculated and then the hype brain took over and everyone reported it as AI. I've had that happen to the company I work at and we literally have zero AI stuff.
- dboreham 1y agoHype Brain :) And the language changed just a little bit..
- shagmin 1y agoFrom my understanding that was to be used as a last resort.
- DyslexicAtheist 1y agothere was this German talking head "Nico Lange" who made this claim first without providing evidence for it. He is an ex politician and a regular in the Munich Security Conference and I assume this is who was (mainly) responsible for spreading it. AI gets so much boost from this nonsense. Because now it's about saving our lives.