British soldiers take down drone swarm in groundbreaking use of radio wave weapon
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British soldiers have successfully tracked, targeted and defeated swarms of drones in the latest trial of a new directed energy weapon developed in the UK.
  • UK-made, invisible radio wave weapon knocks out drone swarms for the first time.
  • Weapon has potential to help protect against drone threats as nature of warfare changes.
  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    So when can we start shipping them to Ukraine? Even from a selfish perspective its a perfect environment to field test this.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Warzone’s always the best environment to test new battlefield systems.

      Look at the difference in technology between the beginning of the first world war and the end. We started off with essentially standing in fields shooting each other over distances you could spit, and ended up with tanks. The second world war gave us nukes.

      Will probably have AGI battle droids by the end of this war.

      • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Nah, interesting point from Issac Arthur that the dumbest AI always wins assuming both are complex enough to do the job, the dumb one will have less processing delay to make each decision.