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[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 68 points 4 months ago

Tbf Poland would be joining them this time around.

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 45 points 4 months ago

They're allowed to take out one German tank with light cavalry, for old time's sake.

[-] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 41 points 4 months ago

You know...as the battlefield becomes ever more automated, there might be a very brief window where the winged hussars could make a comeback.

Let's say you have a battlefield riddled with smart drones. They have image recognition and immediately attack anything resembling a tank or other military asset. Do you think anyone bothered to program the drones to seek out and attack a unit outfit like 18th century Polish cavalry? A charge on horseback just might be able to ride completely undisturbed through the right kind of drone-controlled battlefield.

[-] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Ukranian drones are already equipped to target the latest Russian logistic vehicles, donkeys.

[-] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED

[-] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

COMING DOWN THEY TURNED THE TIDE

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago
[-] Bzdalderon@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

I didn't know this existed and you just made my life

[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

They would be programmed to kill anything that moved just to be sure they get everything. They will be deployed like mine fields except the owners could disable them to move through the drone field.

[-] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago

Do you want your drones to burn through their numbers attacking deer and birds? That's what happens if you set them to attack anything.

[-] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago

I can see the Onion headline: High-Tech Warfare not as simple as military genius on the internet thought

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago

The moment they are activated they'll just blow each other up. Could be fun to watch.

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago

Indeed, never provision your killbots with a pre-set kill limit. There's a well-known strategy to deal with that.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago

Okay well I'm just going to air blast gravel at them then.

Or you could just get a big block of lead and mount it on a remote controlled chassis and just drive it around. At 6 mi an hour.

[-] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago

Especially with these wings!

[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago

Last time Russia and Germany invaded Poland together. Presumably this would be Germany and Poland invading Russia.

[-] AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com 1 points 4 months ago

After the refusal of France, England and Poland to enter a military alliance against the Nazis with the USSR, the only alternative to a partial Soviet occupation of Poland was a total Nazi occupation of Poland. Tell me, would you prefer a total Nazi occupation of Poland?

[-] VoodooMug@feddit.org 5 points 4 months ago

Erm, Stalin did a deal with Hitler, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret protocol, they agreed to carve up Europe between them with the USSR to take Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Bessarabia and half of Poland. The Finland part didn't work out so well, and Hitler went on to break the pact. The details of this were proven only when it was made public during the Nuremberg trials.

[-] dnick@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

They did last time too, just not quite as voluntarily

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