dunno about rockets, but antenna thingy works only because you can simulate performance of antenna very reliably, precisely and quickly. This data was fed back, random small changes were made, things that were an improvement passed to the next iteration. Not sure how this approach is called but none of it is LLM

i think that openai also wanted to solve their problems with fusion, but they got a step further, they made a startup for this. not normal nuclear power plant hot rock machine, no, they want tech that is perpetually Just A Decade Away. it makes some perverse sense if your funding is dependent on misguided hype only

fusion research is just thinnest disguise for thermonuclear weapons research, especially the inertial confinement fusion variety

ah yes, the Simple English wiki filter but wrong

yeah if you want to have so different pieces working together, you need training that makes exploitation of it all possible, goes without saying

i don’t know enough about chinese rifles to speak authoritatively one way or the other, but there was a claim that it’s a target from QCB training where they used rubber bullets that tumble no matter what you do

this is how people used guns before john browning was born

is engagement-driven content scoring harmful to everyone with a pulse? does pope shit in the woods? click here to find how

everything with a memory is capable of time travel

if i have to guess, the thing that prevents mobility now is constant surveillance, also by drones + lots of artillery, and some attack drones too. the thing that will enable large scale movements will be air dominance and even more EW

but was Kurzweil sued (and lost) for his bullshit?

Damn, if only.

Drones mostly target humans and crewed vehicles, not other drones (and disable rapidly and suddenly un-crewed vehicles) (with rare exceptions of recon drones crashing other recon drones by breaking their propellers and like 1 or 2 cases of FPV drones shooting down fixed wing recon drones. anti-drone warfare is mostly EW, then AAA and things like MANPADS or even bigger missiles depending on how valuable that drone is as a target)

Besides, last time i’ve checked it was not drones that took or retook Vovchansk (80% ish Ukrainian controlled last week), it was tanks, arty, mechanized infantry, maybe a dash of CAS and loads of AA and jammers, you know, just like in every war since 80s or even bit earlier. Loads of small cheap PGMs do work great in anti-vehicle role, and drones are just that, so it makes everybody hide fair bit harder

what makes me think that APSs are not a real factor either way is that everyone slaps ERA and anti-drone mesh on everything, which would interfere with radar. APSs historically had a huge blind spot on top, which is a bad thing in a war with drones. also, major user of APSs, IDF, slapped anti-drone grids on top of their tanks at the beginning of current Gaza war, so kinda probably that means that they are not really sure that it works good enough

wait i just noticed that mastodon doesn’t show images embedded in comments (there are maps)

it funded some fundamental research, fine by me

yeah, and it’s been like this since brits used freshly invented heavy machine guns in their colonial wars. machines killing machines is just what will cause army bean counters to burn at stake operators of these machines

“Humans are generally far removed from the scene of battle.”

if you have budget for that, against an enemy that doesn’t

Ukrainians have this thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaslin_Active_Protection_System but i’ve never seen something like Drozd/Arena used, nor western APSs. plenty of ERA everywhere tho

what is nice about this, half of the shit you listed is either scam for hype-suspectible cultists or is not what you present as when marketing fluff is removed

all 20 of them?

everything that goes boom was used by now, but i doubt it’ll make a major difference