Since that rather gruesome thing started two years ago there has been a lot of content piped through to my fickle and aging smart phone. The percentage of garbage was high, but in every dumpster there lies the chance to find, say, an unopened bottle of beer (which, along with the return deposit, can practically rain good fortune).
In related news, Red Cat Holdings, Inc. last week announced it successfully passed electronic warfare (EW) testing in Ukraine with Doodle Labs. The successful test is part of a continuous innovation cycle that began in May 2023 with a partnership between Red Cat and Doodle for its U.S. Army Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR) program prototype.
By far the best and most surprising discovery was, coincidentally, have been DIY drone detectors, a.k.a “цуркорки.” Even former President Poroshenko is dishing them out.
A whole industry has grown up around the 802.11 standards of communication, which underlie WiFi and local area networking. Everything is made to the same standards, which means that companies like Red Cat and Doodle can build their technology on top of it and test it out here.
American gadgets are more expensive and less effective. Skydio, as we recall, flunked the Ukraine test. Boeing’s GPS-guided precision-guided munitions (GLSDB) have been one more costly failure, according to Defense One1. WSJ hyped them up last year2.
Big article about EW here.
Another US precision-guided weapon falls prey to Russian electronic warfare, US says. A U.S. defense official would not provide specifics, but is likely referring to Boeing’s Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb (Defense One, April 28, 2004)
U.S. Expected to Send Ukraine Longer-Range Smart Bombs in Next Aid Package. The weapon is a precision-guided bomb with a range of 94 miles (The Wall Street Journal, February 1, 2023)