Ukraine said it took a Russian position using just drones and ground robots.

Zelenskyy said it was a wartime first, and no Ukrainian infantry was involved.

He said robots have done over 22,000 missions in three months, keeping many soldiers from harm.

  • untorquer@quokk.au
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    No one will give a shit about robots dying. The drones will either be attempting to war crime civillians or intercept said war crime robots.

    And drone intercept rates arent even close to that not being scary.

    • BillCheddar@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      19 hours ago

      People will give a shit about the robots dying once their side starts running low.

      When shit turns into Helm’s Deep, when the robots are taking out the last of your defenses, you’ll give a shit lol.

      Think of the drones and robots less like soldiers/planes and more like a thousand points that make up a force field. As that field decays, so does your protection beneath it.

      • untorquer@quokk.au
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        18 hours ago

        I think you’re overestimating the defensive capabilities we have. Drones has been so successful in warfare specifically because there is no good counter, and numbers can be used to overcome more effective countermeasures.

        Helms deep had walls which were impassable before breaching. Drones leak through defenses like a sieve.

        • BillCheddar@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          18 hours ago

          Dude, I am not talking about capabilities we have. We’re talking about massive drone-on-drone wars, not today.

          So thank you for contributing to some other conversation, but your comment does not exist in the same universe as mine.

          • untorquer@quokk.au
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            17 hours ago

            That world is here and now. The only futuristic or scifi element is the perfect defense.

    • treadful@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      24 hours ago

      Yeah, destroying inanimate robots isn’t really going to get your enemy to capitulate. Like shooting Iran’s missiles out of the sky isn’t going to change their plan.

      People need to die in warfare for it to matter. Economic and infrastructure targets are really only useful in reaching that goal of killing.