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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.
I already said I believe and stated why. Nice try. I stated previous poster. Not the creator. You are changing the who.
“Nice try”? It’s called “misunderstanding.” I was wrong, mea culpa. But to default to assume I did it on purpose for…idk what? Come on.
You were too busy arguing and trying to push your opinion to bother to understand what was going on.
Get over yourself. It was an easy mistake to make. But if it’s so important to you to dance with glee because somebody misinterpreted what you wrote, go ahead and be that petty person. You must need the victory badly.