War Reports - 2024-04-21

"310 against 112. The bill has been passed": The US House of Representatives voted for a bill on the allocation of aid to Ukraine, for which Biden and Co have been fighting for the last six months.

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It is already very clear that robots will kill people. For an AI-controlled combat aircraft, all restrictions on overloads dangerous to humans are lifted. This means speed, acceleration, maneuverability, altitude plus reaction speed and decision-making speed are not comparable to manned aircraft.

The US Air Force conducted the first full-scale dogfight between a human and an AI:

The Pentagon revealed details of the first-ever air combat training on real fighters (and not in simulation) between artificial intelligence and a live pilot.

It took place last year as part of the experimental program Air Combat Evolution (evolution of air combat, ACE), which was launched in 2022 by the Office of Advanced Projects of the US Department of Defense.

Its goal is to develop an AI system capable of independently controlling a fighter with high efficiency and safety.

The tests were successful — there was also a pilot in the cockpit of the second fighter, but his intervention in the behavior of the machine under AI control was not required.

(https://hightech.plus/2024/04/19/vvs-ssha-proveli-pervii-naturnii-vozdushnii-boi-mezhdu-chelovekom-i-ii)

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A large-scale UAV attack on the regions of the Russian Federation was repelled by air defense, 50 aircraft-type UAVs were shot down and intercepted, the Ministry (https://t.me/navideovidno/73893) of Defense reported

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Russian telegram channel "Diary of a Paratrooper (https://t.me/DnevnikDesantnika/9812)": Zaporozhye direction.

North-west of Verbovoe.

The enemy was strongly entrenched in one of the sectors of the front, they tried to take it by storm, hammer it with artillery, and destroy it with kamikaze drones, but still he sits and resists.

I had to invite my older brother “Solntsepeok"” to visit, as a result of which there was no one to surrender to.

Ukrofashists, you always have the right to choose, give up.

Victor vicktop55

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Military expert Alexander Zimovsky:

"Five attack unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type were destroyed over the Vygonichi district. There are no casualties. When the downed UAV fell, an energy infrastructure facility caught fire."

©Governor Bogomaz

Zimovsky: "Object" — Novobryanskaya 750 kW substation, ensures the distribution of capacities generated by two nuclear power plants – Smolensk and Kursk NPP.

In general, there is usually nothing to burn at substations except transformer oil (this is such a refrigerant). And sometimes up to a ton of this oil is poured into large power transformers. It flares up at t +135 °C.

This is our electrification."

That is, the 750 kV substation providing operation of two nuclear power plants has been damaged. Lovely, don't you think?

The Ukrainian Nazis have no restrictions on their actions. At the same time, Russia imposes restrictions on itself.

It has been necessary to demolish the Bandera government in Ukraine for a long time and from the very beginning and destroy everything that generates electricity, including switchgears of nuclear power plants.

It will be, but later. After all this is destroyed in Russia.

Victor vicktop55

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