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 ====== Half an hour left of your life ====== ====== Half an hour left of your life ======
  
-Do you still have ***Hair*** ? Older people might still remember just how much of a cult hit this film was amidst the final throes of entrenched socialism. Obviously, it was mainly the music that captivated us, but the story was also quite unusual for us. +Do you still have **Hair** ? Older people might still remember just how much of a cult hit this film was amidst the final throes of entrenched socialism. Obviously, it was mainly the music that captivated us, but the story was also quite unusual for us. 
  
 **Claude Bukowski**, a rather naive lad from rural Oklahoma, is seen off by his father at the bus stop; his father slips him some cash, they shake hands, and he boards the bus to New York. Perhaps he has never seen such a big city in his life, perhaps he has never even been with a woman, but there in his hand is his call-up papers: he is off to the other end of the world to be cannon fodder in a completely senseless, distant war.  **Claude Bukowski**, a rather naive lad from rural Oklahoma, is seen off by his father at the bus stop; his father slips him some cash, they shake hands, and he boards the bus to New York. Perhaps he has never seen such a big city in his life, perhaps he has never even been with a woman, but there in his hand is his call-up papers: he is off to the other end of the world to be cannon fodder in a completely senseless, distant war. 
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   * **FPV Kamikaze quadcopters:** These small, extremely fast and manoeuvrable devices fly directly at soldiers’ necks or into their cover, carrying fragmentation grenades.   * **FPV Kamikaze quadcopters:** These small, extremely fast and manoeuvrable devices fly directly at soldiers’ necks or into their cover, carrying fragmentation grenades.
-  * **Hornet and Martian winged drones:** These American-Ukrainian-developed machines, with styrofoam (Hungarocell) bodies and quiet electric motors, are virtually invisible to radar. They are capable of operating at depths of up to 150–200 km. Their AI systems have been trained using thousands of hours of battlefield footage, enabling them to recognise military trucks and personnel even without human command. They often lie in wait for their targets on the ground, in standby mode.+  * **Hornet and Martian winged drones:** These American-Ukrainian-developed machines, with styrofoam (Hungarocell) bodies and quiet electric motors, are virtually invisible to radar. They can operate at depths of 150–200 km. Their AI systems have been trained using thousands of hours of battlefield footage, enabling them to recognise military trucks and personnel even without human command. They often lie in wait for their targets on the ground, in standby mode.
   * **Grenade-launching (Mavic-type) drones:** Hovering above static positions, they drop small grenades with surgical precision directly onto soldiers crouching in the trenches.   * **Grenade-launching (Mavic-type) drones:** Hovering above static positions, they drop small grenades with surgical precision directly onto soldiers crouching in the trenches.
  
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 AI identifies them based on shape and thermal imagery. Soldiers sometimes wear special thermal cloaks that block body heat, whilst vehicles are camouflaged with irregular patterns, branches or oddly shaped metal boxes (‘turtle tanks’) to confuse the drones’ machine vision software.  AI identifies them based on shape and thermal imagery. Soldiers sometimes wear special thermal cloaks that block body heat, whilst vehicles are camouflaged with irregular patterns, branches or oddly shaped metal boxes (‘turtle tanks’) to confuse the drones’ machine vision software. 
  
-It is virtually impossible to hit a small, zigzagging FPV drone with conventional assault rifles. Hunting shotguns have therefore become standard issue on the front line; their spread of shot is capable of bringing down the approaching drone in the final metres.+It is virtually impossible to hit a small, zigzagging FPV drone with conventional assault rifles. Hunting shotguns have therefore become standard issue on the front line; their spread of shot can bring down the approaching drone in the final metres.
  
-The way soldiers move on the front line has now come to resemble the gait of the Fremen in the Dune films. Moving continuously and rhythmically across open terrain is tantamount to suicide, as the algorithm can instantly calculate the most optimal and lethal flight path. +The way soldiers move on the front line now resembles the gait of the Fremen in the Dune films. Moving continuously and rhythmically across open terrain is tantamount to suicide, as the algorithm can instantly calculate the most optimal and lethal flight path. 
  
 Instead, experienced soldiers move in a zigzag pattern; after covering a maximum distance of 200 metres, they crouch down and stop to listen. If they hear the hum, they must freeze completely (//Freezing//), trusting that the software, which hunts for moving pixels, will regard them as mere terrain features.  Instead, experienced soldiers move in a zigzag pattern; after covering a maximum distance of 200 metres, they crouch down and stop to listen. If they hear the hum, they must freeze completely (//Freezing//), trusting that the software, which hunts for moving pixels, will regard them as mere terrain features. 
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 It is clearly the United States’ undisguised aim to gain access to the technology behind the Ukrainian AI-controlled systems tested in live combat, so that it can integrate it into its own defence industry. It is clearly the United States’ undisguised aim to gain access to the technology behind the Ukrainian AI-controlled systems tested in live combat, so that it can integrate it into its own defence industry.
  
-Further bad news is that what is currently //“merely”// battlefield technology could become a civilian reality tomorrow. Security policy experts are already warning that these cheap, open-source AI technologies will seep into organised crime and terrorism in the blink of an eye. The hitman of the future will no longer need to travel to the scene armed. All they need to do is upload a photo of the target into the facial recognition system of a pocket-sized drone, set it loose in the city, and the algorithm will do the job – coldly, impersonally, and providing a perfect alibi.+Further bad news is that what is currently //“merely”// battlefield technology could become a civilian reality tomorrow. Security policy experts are already warning that these cheap, open-source AI technologies will seep into organised crime and terrorism in the blink of an eye. The hitman of the future will no longer need to travel to the scene armed. All they need to do is upload a photo of the target into the facial recognition system of a pocket-sized drone, set it loose in the city, and the algorithm will do the job – coldly, impersonally, and provide a perfect alibi.
  
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