Ukraine’s biggest missile runs on free drone software, CEO defends it

Ukraine’s most powerful long-range strike weapon, a six-ton cruise missile capable of hitting targets 3,000 kilometers (1,865 miles) away, runs on the same free, publicly available flight software that hobbyists use to fly camera drones. French science outlet Futura reported that its journalis

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Ukraine’s most powerful long-range strike weapon, a six-ton cruise missile capable of hitting targets 3,000 kilometers (1,865 miles) away, runs on the same free, publicly available flight software that hobbyists use to fly camera drones. French science outlet Futura reported that its journalists identified ArduPilot, an open-source autopilot system widely used across the unmanned aircraft […]

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