Ukraine integrates open-source ArduPilot software into FP-5 Flamingo missiles to bypass electronic jamming

@sdamico All while getting bombed, rocketed, invaded, shot, shaheeded every single day.

Ukrainians are tough & very smart people!

@sdamico They get cyber attacked and still manage to use Discord for communication.

And they go and build a firesupport system that works like ordering a pizza.

@sdamico You know ‘impulse labs’ is also a good name for a directed energy or railgun company

@sdamico The most unhinged part of US MIC is they are watching this happen and concluded that $20M autopilot wingmen are the way to modernize.

🤦‍♂️

@sdamico This should be a wake up call for the world

@sdamico And it works. Well. Their targeting software was seen as a risk initially, Russia even hacked it, but they improved it and it saved them both ammunition and men (could hit a target from multiple locations preventing counter battery strikes).

Forged in fire as they say.

@sdamico Gives me hope

@sdamico Ardupilot is one of the most reliable flight controller for drones on the planet. It was built from the ashes of 3DR and went through decade plus of refinement. Not accurate calling it “jank hobbyist stuff”

@sdamico It's almost like the CIA helped them or something

@sdamico Wait til “proper defence companies” get their hands on it and make it needlessly 10x the cost, complexity and time to build

@sdamico Not exactly new… You should check out the sten gun some time… real backyard factory stuff from about a century ago now. Ukraine just being smart about it.

@CT_parks_asdf @sdamico ixnay

@EV_Trapper @sdamico Yes