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They should have done that the moment grain deal was first mentioned
We don't know what they actually attacked... that damage could have been S-300s and Patriots deciding not to play.
No necessarily.
No, you are right... what is Russia going to do with the worlds only existing An-225... oops... no... it was destroyed before they could capture it...
Are you forgetting who Russia is fighting... they destroyed Antonov years ago just to hurt Russia... they destroyed their entire country to try to hurt Russia.
In most cases they were really doing Russia a favour.
These three Ukrainian ports will be useful for building civilian ships so other Russian shipyards can get a little breathing space and catch up on the vessels they are building.
At some point Ukraine will have to sue for peace.
Zelensky can't back down and he wont. He knew from the start they would lose, but as long as he gets money from the west this conflict will continue until the people of the Ukraine decide they have had enough...
Russia is already creating the narrative that mines are adrift in the Black Sea making it untenable to commercial traffic.
Hahaha... Russia has said any ships heading to or leaving Ukrainian ports will be considered military... that will be enough to prevent any ship getting insurance which means they wont sail.
Maybe the UK navy will escort those ships but they can't get them into the Black Sea so we will never know.
Any reasonable perspective is landlocking it and dismantling of entire nuclear infrastructure or occupying it. Other way, those idiots will construct a dirty nuke any moment.
Minsk and the grain deal and the deal early last year to surrender just shows they are incapable of being honest with agreements and the west has proven to be worse to be honest. Nothing signed by Zelensky is worth anything at all except orders for his own execution...
As if they weren't ones already...
The tantrums Zelensky is having asking countries to deliver stuff anyway suggests they were getting something more important than just money from the sales of grain.... Putin was fair and did the right thing and when the west cheated them they have stopped the deal, so Putin and Russia can't be cast as the bad guys unless you ignore the facts, so the rest of the world will see who is at fault, and Russia blocks revenue and a route for importing other things without upsetting anyone who is being reasonable.
No they are not, but what is new is smaller electronics, which allow neural networks to be implements on vehicles as small as lancets or even FPV drones
A neural network is not a human brain in computer chip form. It is a way of programming a system that learns to do things by trial and error with training where the programme works out how to solve problems for itself.
I remember in the 1980s there was a big German project for an AI Neural Network system that could detect tanks. Very simply you take dozens of photos of tanks and dozens of photos without tanks and you sit in a lab and feed digital images of the tank or no tank into the computer and it analyses the photo and tries to work out whether there is a tank there or not. The problem is that it is a black box system... you can't just train it up and then open the code and see what rules it has created for itself to work out which is which. So after training this computer programme they were getting 90% plus success rates so they tried it in the field at an army exercise and it was awful. It couldn't see tanks right in front of it. It was tested another day and it saw tanks everywhere.
The hilarious thing is that when they went through testing it in the field what they realised was that all the photos they used with tanks in them were taken on a sunny day and all the photos without tanks were taken on a cloudy day.
You train the system by feeding in a photo with a tank in it and then telling it there is a tank in the photo so the programme looks at the photo and tries to work out features of that photo, so if you put that photo in again it would say there is a tank there. It is not looking at the photo and identifying an actual tank like a human would. The you give it different photos with and without tanks and you tell it which has tanks and which don't and it examines each image and uses the answer of whether there is a tank there or not and it splits them into two groups and tries to find similarities of all the photos with tanks to work out if there is a tank there and also all the similarities of the photos where it is told there are no tanks. They were hoping the programme would pick up on the straight lines of the tanks armour and its gun barrel distinctive shape and the colours of the tank compared with photos with no tank that does not have those colours present.
As I said it is a black box system so you can't just look at the code of a trained neural network to see what it was looking for.
Ironically you can use AI to spot moving targets which makes detection easier and once detected you can have a programme analyse its shape to work out what it might be, and of course modern computing with large capacity storage means huge 3D databases of shapes means you can actually move to identify things too.
In the 1980s having more than 250 colours on a computer game at one time was amazing... Amiga 500!!! but these days the video processing performance can draw a cats face on someone being videoed in real time on a cell phone. Video processing technology has massively improved along with storage and processing power of CPUs... which make many things possible.
Don't confuse AI with smart... AI is fast but is potentially stupid... without fuzzy logic an old computer AI could not tell the difference between two photos of the same person if that person has a hat and a beard in one photo and clean shaven and no hat in the other.
A modern AI would look at the shape of the face and the location of the eyes and ears and nose and mouth and shapes and relations between the position and work out they are the same person. It still couldn't cope with someone wearing a ronnie reagan mask....
AI is not smart, but it can do things very well... like counting sheep from aerial photos and other monotonous stuff.
And of course unlike a human it has no morals or ethics... but then Americans have people piloting drones that murder people... though to their credit there is some turn over in operators with some having consciences and not just quitting but also speaking out about what they did.
Even at the commercial level, you don't need micro sized electronics, but a DJI Mavic could be upgraded to contain this on say modern GPU
AI is already used to auto focus camera lenses and for face recognition...
You can keep the neural network on a library that's open source, obviously Zala won't do that, but I'm saying that this is revolutionary because civilians have been experimenting with convolutional neural networks for a while now and open source libraries exist for on the GPU application
On a few Combat Approved episodes they had models of all sorts of aircraft, from their own to foreign types... including types that are not even in service yet like US hypersonic missiles that they have a rotary holder that can raise the model on cables and spin it around and they have radar set up around this thing with optics and radar and IR devices that are recording RCS and heat signatures from every angle to create 3D models of these targets based on the actual sensors that will be used by Russian platforms so the radar or IR camera or TV camera return can be used to ID targets from a database of shapes.
And ofc you can trick a drone supported by CNNs easily, but you do realize CNNs are learning fast, and other inputs could be used to make sure that an attack should be conducted
Once a neural network has been trained it stops learning. You can over train a neural network and render it useless.
Neural networks in practical use can be given new data to retrain but at the end of the day a suicide drone will take everything it knows to the grave the first time it is used.
I think image recognition is better than radar, simply because as you stated, there are less countermeasures against optical guidance than there are for radar
Absolutely completely wrong... optical systems have been countered in war for CENTURIES... even native cultures understood the concept of war paint and sneaking up on prey from hiding places to taking hiding places around with you using camouflaged clothes and gear... and IR camouflage like Nakidka and even DIRCMS or simple smoke are widely deployed. Radar camouflage is pretty new and not widely used yet... but even then there are countermeasures...
MMW radar is certainly an application to look at, but MMW can be jammed
Can it be jammed? Any jammer would then become an easy target would it not?
and the whole point of neural network on GPU is to close the loop, and avoid jamming potential
Against an opponent that is lazy a NN is fantastic... after one HATO exercise one of the officers reportedly said that defeating his force would be easy... just shoot all the bushes in the open fields... it would be fairly easy to train a NN with a satellite photo from the day before and have it hit all the new bushes everywhere... just as an example.
But then against Russia with inflatable decoys and solid air defence you are going to struggle because they have more air defence munitions than any country has drones of any kind.
That is the hard way. Close the western border and the house of card will collapse It will take some effort, but still be easier then this macabre affair with young Russians dying in lesser but significant numbers then Ukrainians.
The only way to close those western borders is to use a lot of Russian soldiers in territory occupied by a highly hostile and indoctrinated population... and there is no reason to think lots of civilians would be killed by such a Russian action.
New US package. Item 11 may be a bit late
Item 11 is probably mines... if the Ukraine can't use the ports then no one can type thinking I suspect.
You are being manipulated, I have no idea what poll is that, but I heard that recently 60% of people in Poland are opposed to providing assistance to Ukraine.
That poll is about feelings towards Russia and Russians... 100% of Poles thinking it is a bad idea to keep sending assistance to the Ukraine doesn't mean they suddenly like Russians and all is forgiven. Some of those 60% Poles probably realise that Poland has its own problems and should be sorting those out before interfering in the Ukraine... especially when the response always seems to be that you are not giving enough fast enough instead of the gratitude you might expect...
"So far, 10 MiG-29s have been handed over, but it is possible that Poland will hand over the rest - about 20 aircraft of this type that they still have in service. However, this will most likely happen after Poland starts receiving aircraft from Western countries."
You think Poland is starting to realise it might not be getting all the things they donated to the Ukraine for this conflict replaced by shiny new American stuff and I see that Trump has already said if he is elected he will make EU countries pay for all the new weapons to replace those they sent to Kiev and that there wont be any freebies.
i play a game called Topwar and one of my friend is Polish, in our alliance we had a group of Russians before they joined our alliance he went along with the Russians evil narrative until he found out they were just normal people, i told him to look up Stephan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych and read the crimes they committed against Polish people during WW2 and that these guys were made national heroes of Ukraine as well as glorifying the SS and using there emblems .... his opinions changed after reading about it
Western propaganda works so well because most westerners don't give a shit about history and will believe what their news media tell them... ignoring the fact that their news media are the problem.
In Poland there are many stupid and subservient people.
The entire western world think they know the truth and their news media keeps them fully informed about what is happening and that it is RT and Sputnik and other that spread propaganda and lies... we won the cold war because we were right...
There is also lots of propaganda and manipulation by the ruling German-Ukrainian mafia in Poland.
And of course such things leads to strange bed fellows... some will hate Russians so much they will ignore that Ukraine has probably killed more Poles than Russia ever did, and of course Ukraine was Russia anyway but that is also forgotten... western media say everything is Russias fault and Kiev is fighting Russia so they must be the good guys... anyone saying anything different is Putins puppet.
Isn't this the same shithead that was in charge of the Afghan debacle?
And his main goal is to bring that level of success to this conflict... some companies made billions...
So Putin will not attend BRICS in person. I was hoping for a stronger response to warrants. Something like: ICC warrants that result in an arrest of a Russian National will result in a response from Russia that can include the full force of the Russian military against any nations, persons or companies that are involved.
Actually I was hoping South Africa would say the ICC is clearly a political white european mans club for clubbing non europeans and that they would leave the ICC completely because it simply does not have the interests of the rest of the world in mind.
agonizing effort to get away from burning vehicle.
Looks like Anakin Skywalker just before he got the big black suit...
Platoon wiped out by a single well placed mortar round. Anyone have any idea how they are so accurate?
Russian camera close by filming it... I would say Gran guided 120mm round and laser target marker.
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