The system being discussed is not explicitly or exclusively useful in military contexts. There are a LOT of places where advanced beam forming and radar capabilities could be useful outside of that. Not to mention: in military applications, this is pretty definitely a defensive system.
So, one of the really interesting things to me about this approach is that it offers the same asymmetric value proposition that cheap attack drones do to modern pre-drone IADS.
That is: this is a platform that costs 10-15k, and an AGM-88 of modern manufacture costs almost 900k, and a Kh-31 costs about 550k - and, just as importantly, both require a long time to manufacture. So, you could theoretically make a moderately large distributed array sprinkled over a few square kilometers, and even if they’re ALL turned on, it quickly becomes logistically infeasible to knock them all out without spending a silly quantity on antirad munitions, as well as massively attriting your stocks of antirad munitions. And if you turn like 10-25% of them on at a time and cycle through your array, the problem becomes even harder for the attacker. And if you have some sort of process or mechanism - like, oh I don’t know, figuring out how to do light aerial transport with cargo drones, or even figuring out how to mount these distributed array nodes on the drones themselves, and some sort of lightweight tether for providing power - the problem becomes a MASSIVE pain in the ass for an adversary (especially that last idea, which introduces z-axis and immediate maneuverability, such that the array could feasibly detect and altogether avoid an incoming antirad munition).
And that’s the paradigm of modern warfare - not just drones, but also networked and attritable systems that maintain functionality when elements are taken offline
As in: you agree with the article’s assertion?
lol shut the fuck up NYT
Lmao ok sure buddy
Bending spoons are a bunch of no-talent hyper capitalist private equity fuckwits whose core competence involves acquiring companies and cutting any novel, interesting, or long term projects that require any investment whatsoever to the bone, regardless of whether or not said cuts destroy long-term core competencies, and then extracting as much value as possible from the remains until it goes tits up. They are a plague of a company, and they’ve sucked the life out of more than a few companies that don’t deserve to have been parasitized like that.
This fluff article is comically obvious, disingenuous, and gross. They are a bad company, and they provide no real value to anyone except their shareholders. Which, I guess, makes them “successful” in this day and age.
Source: worked at a company they acquired. Left before the acquisition, but I had some good friends who were still there when it happened. They cut upwards of 90% of the staff, hollowed out the parts of the business that, while less profitable, was by far the most interesting and challenging technical domain and enabled novel R&D, and converted from primarily B2B to a direct-to-consumer subscription model that completely flopped.
Stop talking as if you give any semblance of a shit about the art and craft of programming. You clearly don’t.
No it’s ok I blocked the Claude user from my repos
Less code is better code. And you’re response indicates you do not understand that point.
I think that’s external combustion, but I get your point
The bad news is that the first time you update your package manager, it moves EVERYTHING to your home directory
$3M
Effectively, they won. That can’t even be classified as a slap on the wrist. That’s cheaper than an hour of OpEx for them
Oooooohhhh is it starting? I hope it’s starting 🤩
Suck my huang
lol Microslop gonna Microslop
And yet, the marketing for these systems keeps getting more and more hyped.
For even more fun, look into the FAA’s “regulation” of Boeing, which was effectively “do you super duper pinky promise that you followed the rules?”
Seriously, the verification was done by Boeing and then reported back to the FAA
Wow how about no? What the actual fuck?
I’m talking about HARM and friends because in terms of quickly executing a kill chain against a transmitting radar, antirad munitions are the gold standard. Sure, it can be done other ways. But it generally involves a lot more systems with relatively complex integration.