Balaji Srinivasan: Ukrainian forces deploy drones using multi-kilometer ethernet cables
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Technologist Balaji Srinivasan highlights physical military adaptations in drone warfare during a discussion on digital and physical borders.
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“And in Ukraine, you know, these things with the drones on cables, just crazy thing they're doing there, right? Like, you know, those like big unwindy cable things that you sometimes see on like ships, right? So they have these cables for these one-way drones that are these ridiculously long, like multi-kilometer long ethernet cables, like cat one cables on a drone. So it can be offline and it goes past signal jammers or something like that. And then it goes and blows up on its target. And it goes forward, and the cable gets tangled in the trees. They don't care. Just because it, because it's not going to go a reverse trip where it gets, has to yank the, you know, so it's a one-way path. It doesn't matter. It's a one-way drone, which is kind of crazy.”
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