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clamorous_owle Apr 20, 2026 +54

Putin, much to his chagrin, has unintentionally sparked a technological revolution in Ukraine which is biting him back.

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GladCreme8654 Apr 20, 2026 +56

He forgot that Ukraine used to be the brains in the Soviet Union

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wrosecrans Apr 20, 2026 +24

Ukraine was basically the Soviets' California. Tech, ag, and warm water ports. Poland was also a huge chunk of the Soviet industrial heartland. Russia itself was basically just the USSR's Washington DC and a lot of Indiana. The superpower was all out in the empire, not in the capital.

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Fritzkreig Apr 20, 2026 -2

Yo, why the shade at Indiana; what did we do; almost nothing but grow crops and basketball and stuff?

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wrosecrans Apr 20, 2026 +8

And elect Mike Pence as governor. Politically, Indiana is not that far ahead of Russia.

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Fritzkreig Apr 20, 2026 +3

Tell me to my face that Mike Pence was worse than Mike Braun!

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robbie_the_cat Apr 20, 2026 +3

Nothing but corn and conversion therapy as far as the eye can see.

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project23 Apr 20, 2026 +29

This can't be overstated. Ukraine was a powerhouse of applied sciences across many domains in the USSR and they are showing their wings under the pressure of war from russia. They deserve to live free for the betterment of us all. They can do so much more than build war machines but right now that is what they are forced to do for their own survival.

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Haru1st Apr 20, 2026 +1

Can you blame the man? When was the last time you tried remembering without your brain? It does put his irrationality into perspective, though.

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Fritzkreig Apr 20, 2026 +14

They are speed running this, they are planning to deploy 25,000 frontline ground drones to take pressure off of the front-line infantry. A lot of countries should be helping them now just because, but also because they are now the cutting edge drone military! Слава Україні!

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clib Apr 20, 2026 +3

What is ground drone? A robot?

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Fritzkreig Apr 20, 2026 +8

Right now they are essentially tracked golf carts with weapons and sensors; but no doubt that they will get better.

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Lucky-Elk-1234 Apr 20, 2026 +1

What’s the advantage of that over an aerial drone? Seems like flying through the air and attacking from distance would be less of a challenge than dealing with terrain.

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NecessarySudden Apr 20, 2026 +7

on the ground unmanned platforms can be used in logistics and carry remote controlled turrets. You can pack more batteries there which means more carrying capacity than flying drones

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boomerangchampion Apr 20, 2026 +4

Bigger weapons and reusability I guess. A drone with a bomb strapped to it is effective but works once. A robot tank with a gun can shoot a bunch of things. Battery life is probably better as well although they'll obviously be slower, so it probably doesn't have better range. Maybe they have some sentry role for it.

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datumerrata Apr 20, 2026 +5

Ground drones can also sit and wait. They could carry aerial drones for recon and elimination. Then the aerial drone could get resupplied by the ground drone. The ground drone could carry mortars or rockets; which could gain target acquisition from the aerial drone. There's a lot of potential there

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Leafy0 Apr 20, 2026 +1

Holy c***. Could you imagine an atv sized robot that mounts an auto feeding mortar or just like a pepper pot arrangement of 1 shot mortars and its own spotter drone that can just creep up to a forest line or behind a rolling hill or something. Get perfect targeting and sighting data from its own drone, drop half a dozen mortar shells into a trench at 3am, then either Kamikaze or recapture its drone and peace out of there before counter battery artillery lands. And they do that every night all over the front for a couple weeks. They get the whole Russian army sleep deprived.

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datumerrata Apr 20, 2026 +1

With an autonomous mode to continue on its mission if it gets disconnected from HQ. If it's not there yet, that's the direction they're going.

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Existing-Parking4531 Apr 21, 2026 +1

50 cal machine guns

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iPcFc Apr 20, 2026 +5

Thank you Russia for pioneering a new era of warfare. The West should take note of this because the gap between a superpower and a sovereign state has decreased.

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Soft-Ingenuity2262 Apr 20, 2026 +5

Happy for them but surely this has to come back to bite us in the arse, right? China producing tens of thousands of robots yearly, Ukraine with swarms of drones… Have people not watched terminator?! 😅

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NecessarySudden Apr 20, 2026 +2

All this drone for war adoption that led to military ai implementation, swarms etc started when US had government shutdown and EU partners thought if they try to put Ukraine on a shell hunger maybe, somehow they can push for some capitulation and stop the war. They did not realize ukrainians had no "luxury" to just stop fighting (like russians can go home and tomorrow war is over) and strapped explosives to drones. Ballistic missile strikes is still a untouched niche that can't be countered by drones and requires old school expensive interceptors like PAC-3

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Soft-Ingenuity2262 Apr 20, 2026 +1

It is truly remarkable. An exceptional example of human resilience against defying odds. Gives me hope for when skynet declares war on us 🤣

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antantantant80 Apr 20, 2026 +1

Or angel has fallen (2019), the drone raid scene.

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just_a_guy_named1681 Apr 20, 2026 +2

AM coming soon

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Relevant_Election530 Apr 21, 2026 +1

Was pretty much that or get taken over Happy for them (sort of/you know what I mean)

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Sad-Excitement9295 Apr 20, 2026 +1

I would be happy to contribute to the project.

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SpareDot8685 Apr 20, 2026 +1

Wild

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Upbeat_Night_5039 Apr 20, 2026 -7

I think this is the new way of receiving money from Europe. I don't know where he gets idea like this.

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NecessarySudden Apr 20, 2026 +8

What's so bad in Ukraine, which is in Europe, getting money from Europe, to fight Russia attacking Europe?

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Milkmartyr Apr 20, 2026 +5

War

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Kaffe-Mumriken Apr 20, 2026 -5

They do not

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