Ukraine used ArduPilot to help it wipe out Russian targets. It wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last.

Ukraine used ArduPilot to help it wipe out Russian targets. It wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last.

Open source software used by hobbyist drones powered an attack that wiped out a third of Russia’s strategic long range bombers on Sunday afternoon, in one of the most daring and technically coordinated attacks in the war.

In broad daylight on Sunday, explosions rocked air bases in Belaya, Olenya, and Ivanovo in Russia, which are hundreds of miles from Ukraine. The Security Services of Ukraine’s (SBU) Operation Spider Web was a coordinated assault on Russian targets it claimed was more than a year in the making, which was carried out using a nearly 20-year-old piece of open source drone autopilot software called ArduPilot.

ArduPilot’s original creators were in awe of the attack. “That’s ArduPilot, launched from my basement 18 years ago. Crazy,” Chris Anderson said in a comment on LinkedIn below footage of the attack.

  • andybytes@programming.devEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The Book of History never closes. No war is ever won. In 2014, the United States CIA supported a coup that put into power the nationalist who are neo-Nazis. Liberals are not pro-peace, they are pro-war and anti-working class. Ukraine is not a democracy. The United States is willing to sacrifice the whole nation for a proxy war. We are just using them. It’s so funny how you all get jazzed up. It’s like when liberals kept telling us, we have to save the poor women in Afghanistan. America is not a democracy. America is an imperialist empire and Nazis are the useful idiots of empire. It could be argued that there hasn’t been any real human progress. Nowadays, because we keep escalating, we’ve got space nukes. What a miserable world. All the suckers that go along with it.