Reject modernity. Embrace tradition.
Those waveguides
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By now I am convinced either McGyver was of ukranian heritage, or Ukrainian TV programs for kids is entirely reruns of McGyver. One or the other. Amazing.
it’s pretty amazing that cell towers haven’t been targeted by either side
i remember something about the russians targeting them in the first few weeks.
it turned out that their own encrypted comunication channels relied on the gsm network,
and they had to fallback to unencrypted radios.Sounds like average corruption-caused incompetence. Wich sounds legit.
oopsie
It also turns out that small metal poles are a lot harder to functionally kill compared to, say, an airplane or human
They are mostly concrete
Putin did target power and communications infrastructure including cell towers.
I think everyone is mutually reliant on cellular service.
Their goal is annexation as well, meaning that Russia wants to keep as much infrastructure intact as they can.
The goal was Putin staying in power and “dropping concrete slab on enitre nation”.