Sydney Freedberg
@SydneyFreedberg
Contributing editor for future warfare @BreakingDefense, focused on cyber/EW, robotics, & AI. Views strictly my own. “Today is gonna be a happy day in Hell!”
09-02-2012 18:19:56
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Well, crap. I wrote last year that jamming was so effective against drones over Ukraine that there was no point in hardening them & it’s better to just buy lots of expendable ones, but I’d hoped the US might square that circle. Per The Wall Street Journal today, the answer is a resounding no [1/n]:
![Well, crap. I wrote last year that jamming was so effective against drones over Ukraine that there was no point in hardening them & it’s better to just buy lots of expendable ones, but I’d hoped the US might square that circle. Per @WSJ today, the answer is a resounding no [1/n]:](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKzuvpWXEAEnTrk.jpg "Sydney Freedberg (@SydneyFreedberg) on Twitter photo 2024-04-10 13:52:26 Well, crap. I wrote last year that jamming was so effective against drones over Ukraine that there was no point in hardening them & it’s better to just buy lots of expendable ones, but I’d hoped the US might square that circle. Per @WSJ today, the answer is a resounding no [1/n]:")
Here’s that The Wall Street Journal article (link buried in second post to deceive evil algorithms): [2/n] wsj.com/world/how-amer…
The Wall Street Journal And here’s our story from last year, quoting experts Samuel Bendett, retired 2-star Patrick Donahoe, Zachary Kallenborn, Kyle Miller, Kyle Miller CSET, and Mauro Gilli . Very curious what they’d say about today’s news (besides “I told you!”). [3/n] breakingdefense.com/2023/06/dumb-a…
The Wall Street Journal Samuel Bendett Patrick Donahoe Zachary Kallenborn Kyle Miller CSET Mauro Gilli One proposal is to give the drones #AI so they don’t need an uninterrupted control link to a human operator, but as David Hambling & Stacie Pettyjohn found, that’s not worked out in combat so far: [4/n] breakingdefense.com/2024/02/the-re…