Collaborate Disseminate
This isn’t new, the U.S. Navy used to do it all the time using an helicopter that ran off Porsche engines. Continue reading Drone Named After the Terminator Launches a Torpedo from the Air During NATO Exercise
The company says its Artificial Intelligence Platform will integrate AI into military decision making in a legal and ethical way. Continue reading Palantir Demos AI to Fight Wars But Says It Will Be Totally Ethical Don’t Worry About It
The Ukrainian army has released an instructional video explaining how Russian soldiers should surrender to a drone:
“Seeing the drone in the field of view, make eye contact with it,” the video instructs. Soldiers should then raise their arms and signal they’re ready to follow.
After that the drone will move up and down a few meters, before heading off at walking pace in the direction of the nearest representatives of Ukraine’s army, it says.
The video also warns that the drone’s battery may run low, in which case it will head back to base and the soldiers should stay put and await a fresh one…
The killer ground drone revolution is here. Continue reading The Netherlands Has Deployed NATO’s First Killer Robot Ground Vehicles
For soldiers on the battlefield, the act of turning on one’s smartphone has been described as the digital equivalent of lighting a cigarette, as doing so creates a signal about one’s location that can be picked up by the enemy. Despite this, smartphone… Continue reading The weaponizing of smartphone location data on the battlefield
In an ad posted to Telegram, a volunteer on the frontlines of Russia’s war on Ukraine is offering to paint special messages onto shells that will be fired at Russians. Continue reading Ukrainians Will Write Your Message on Munitions Aimed at Russians for Donations
Interesting article about civilians using smartphones to assist their militaries in wartime, and how that blurs the important legal distinction between combatants and non-combatants:
The principle of distinction between the two roles is a critical cornerstone of international humanitarian law—the law of armed conflict, codified by decades of customs and laws such as the Geneva Conventions. Those considered civilians and civilian targets are not to be attacked by military forces; as they are not combatants, they should be spared. At the same time, they also should not act as combatants—if they do, they may lose this status…
A new report from the Stockholm International Peace Institute paints a grim picture of the coming decades. Continue reading Experts to World: We’re Doomed
It’s become increasingly difficult for Russia to publish believable propaganda. Continue reading The Internet Is Debunking Russian War Propaganda in Real Time
One of the most expensive weapons ever made ate shit while trying to land and fell into the sea. Continue reading Leaked Video Shows Navy’s $100 Million F-35C Jet Crash on an Aircraft Carrier