Unfortunately, a rather substantial portion of warfare is the economics behind it. Often, spending eye-watering amounts of money on proprietary, overpriced hardware is the point. It's corporate welfare.

@jsomae it's used to prevent civilian deaths by destroying the weapon that did that. Sounds like love to me. These planes killed children.

If you think about it, this was perhaps the most humane way to conduct war. No humans were harmed in this attack, and the ability to harm humans was severely degraded. You had drones smash into unmanned airplanes. Nothing but money and hardware was lost. This is the utopian version of war if such a thing could ever exist. One country removes another country's ability to harm humans with nobody getting hurt and everyone gets to go home.

Like humans?

You can say that to just about anything. Every weapon system uses stuff that was not developed for this use case. Because so many things are involved there.

Lmao, how can you be sure it's made out of love for humanity? Open source is not always about love or altruism. Most of the times it's just some dude making something for themselves and just have more reason putting it out in the open than selling it. Sometimes it's just boredom and curiosity, sometimes it's about hubris and vanity.

That just proves how advanced ardupilot really is, is it's considered powerful enough to be used in a special military operation.

Might just be that it's what the operators were already familiar with. I've never used either; is there some reason that Ardupilot would be bad rather than just overkill for this use?

How could so many operators coordinate and then disappear? Seems that there were no Ukrainians nearby. FPV operating via Internet would be impossible due to lags and unstable signal.