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Ukraine said it took a Russian position using just drones and ground robots.

Zelenskyy said it was a wartime first, and no Ukrainian infantry was involved.

He said robots have done over 22,000 missions in three months, keeping many soldiers from harm.

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[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (24 children)

The age of drone on drone violence will make war more palatable to citizens.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

Possible. It does seem like drones fighting drones should mean less human casualties, which has both a humanitarian side and an escalation risk side.

Then again a lot of people have thought their weapons would make war less deadly, and been very wrong, including the case of WWI-era artillery.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They "accidentally" told the drones/robots to attack the schools and hospitals. "We would never do that on purpose"

"Well why were the terrorists using school children as human shields!"

I doubt it will ever stop

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

This, but also if you aren't putting your soldiers at risk then war becomes more palatable (and thus more likely). For example, I doubt Trump would have attacked Iran if he had been quoted 1000+ American causalties in the first week.

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