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Fabulously complicated and only producible with exotic emitters, sensors, and high frequency ICs. Probably as easily jammed or forced into calibration state with a directed low frequency em pulse generator. High tech garbage. We will not fare any better than Ukraine relying on tech like this.

Fortunately someone recently posted a real technological wonder - the F-14 cpu, old timers were messing with multithreaded compute while I was muddling along learning pong line by line from a hobbyist magazine.



Probably right. But,

> We will not fare any better than Ukraine relying on tech like this.

Ukraine is faring amazing well, aren’t they?

Russia controls a fraction of the territory, has suffered a million casualties, and lost many many armored vehicles and combat aircraft.


So, it's wining by losing?


> So, it's wining by losing?*

Russia wanted to wipe Ukraine off the map, literally. By simply existing Ukraine is winning.


That's not winning, that's just not losing yet. What a ridiculous thing to claim.


Ok, moving the goal posts works then.


A bit like Putin's war goals.


No, it is carrying out a highly effective asymmetric war. Russia has vastly more resources, but proportionately, Ukraine's forces are being far more effective than Russia's.


Worked reasonably well for the North Koreans and North Vietnamese.

It's a fairly impressive result for the country that was expected to collapse in a week or two.




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