FYI, their low cost UAVs and drones use Raspberrry Pi processors on their own PCBs.
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 1:59 AM Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> wrote: > Advanced tracking technology! Lol, in Russia that means it has an 80386? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of glen > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 1:17 PM > To: friam@redfish.com > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] and don’t miss this > > Ha! Could be fake, but: > > Ukrainian S-300s Gain First Ever Kills: Shoot Down Two NATO Aircraft > Accidentally Over Romania - Reports > https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/ukrainian-s-300s-gain-first-ever-confirmed-kill-shoot-down-two-nato-aircraft-accidentally-over-romania > > It's one thing to smuggle in weapons. It's another thing to have people > there who know how to operate those weapons. > > On 3/16/22 12:16, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Glen writes: > > > > < NATO rejects the no-fly zone. But my guess is it's not because of > > some Utilitarian sense of suffering. It's because war is only > > profitable to a small slice of the industrial world. In some ways, > > that's a good thing, I guess. It signals that we've moved away from > > bombs and fire, toward money and "cyber"/info. To Alphabet, Meta, and > > even Musk Enterprises, people are not only the means of production, > > but also the product. It's stupid to destroy your merchandise. It's > > smarter to keep them enslaved. It's akin to our move from broad > > spectrum [pest|herb]icides toward *targeted* "management". Bombs and > > fire are too coarse to preserve the status quo. Oligarchs like Musk > > need the analog for GMOs and viruses ... hearts and minds of the > > Metaverse denizens. > > > > > If Russia wants to make claims to administer Ukrainian territory, then > NATO can certainly do the same, especially since they are being begged to > do so. A no-fly zone keeps being treated as a term of art. > > It could just be a claim by NATO over some subset of the territory. > Responses to this proposal -- one I heard this morning from Richard Haas > -- are dismissive without explanation. He claimed that Russia's radar > systems would have to be taken out. I don't see why that would be > necessary. It would take the courage to put pilots and vehicles at > risk: Invite Russia to shoot at NATO aircraft. Then as soon as the > Russians attack a NATO security escort or shoot down a plane, punishment > can be proportional. After all, war is politics by other means -- > appealing the folks in Russia and in Putin's orbit that the military > operation has become too dangerous. Meanwhile, once there is a territory > that is relatively safe, then NATO can move more freely to relocate > refugees and to deploy defensive and offensive weapons systems. In a > grinding war, it could make sense to start training Ukrainians on US > weapons systems. > > > > As an extreme example to show the absurdity of these norms, the > smuggling-in of weapons could include nuclear warheads. So, in > comparison, some planes flying around are not nearly as escalatory. > > > > And the media coverage of the military side of this isn't very > penetrating. This morning McFaul said that S-300s were now available to > the Ukrainians. Ok, that's somewhat significant. No one is asking about > surface-to-surface missiles. Perhaps the administration and the Pentagon > (and Zelensky's government) are just keeping the messaging light with the > no-fly zone talk so that they have cover to deploy more diverse weapons? > I suspect it is not so Machiavellian, and the plea for a no-fly zone is > simply desperation. > > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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