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.

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      This is some ultrakill bullshit

      Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrakill?wprov=sfla1

      Spoiler

      The Final War led to the invention of blood-powered machines as mostly soldiers and an arms race. A climate catastrophe caused by the war led to the Sun being blotted out, ending the war. Humans during the New Peace discovered and then started expeditions into Hell, up until their eventual extinction.

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      Until the drones start getting used on civilians. Which is absolutely going to happen and soon.

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      Possible. It does seem like drones fighting drones should mean less human casualties, which has both a humanitarian side and an escalation risk side.

      Then again a lot of people have thought their weapons would make war less deadly, and been very wrong, including the case of WWI-era artillery.

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        They “accidentally” told the drones/robots to attack the schools and hospitals. “We would never do that on purpose”

        “Well why were the terrorists using school children as human shields!”

        I doubt it will ever stop

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          This, but also if you aren’t putting your soldiers at risk then war becomes more palatable (and thus more likely). For example, I doubt Trump would have attacked Iran if he had been quoted 1000+ American causalties in the first week.

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        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.

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      might lead to faster extinction via other methods tho…

      Would be super interested to see the camera feed from all the drones involved.

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    Western Infantry officers will be in shambles if this could be repeated again and again. It has to be tough killing one UGV while quad copters are overhead let alone dozens of them rolling up.

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      Nah, infantry officers would be over the moon if they didn’t have to throw bodies at fortified positions anymore and could just be tasked with holding the AO that the drones assaulted.

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    crazy stuff, now twinks will win wars not 7 feet chuds

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      I’ve seen some videos about drone operators. They are right next to the front lines, under constant observation by enemy drones, in the range of artillery, getting in and out during the night, spending most time underground. They may not be 7 feet tall but they are still chuds.