[victorbjorklund]

you dont need SAM for that. These systemw already exists in Ukraine.

[KeplerBoy]

But you could use it for that and would most likely get SotA results with it.

There are plenty of Nvidia Jetson boards in the ukrainian skies these days. Not necessarily for SAM but for other signal processing and CV tasks.

[victorbjorklund]

yea, but why? If existing CV works what does SAM add? You just need to spot the tank. You dont need to perfectly outline it. It is enough to just identify it.

[KeplerBoy]

It's not that different in defence. SAM2 might be more robust in some cases.

Not everything is just a guided bomb. Sometimes you might want to count and track objects over time.

[aussieguy1234]

But, how expensive are these systems? That is, the ones not vulnerable to jamming that can guide themselves independently of the operator, even if the signal is lost?

[tucnak]

These systems already exists in Ukraine, and no, they are not expensive.

Simply running SAM would already be more expensive.

[victorbjorklund]

very cheap. The computer vision part is pretty basic. It is just a camera and software that runs simple object detection algos (that we had for years) that can identify tanks, trucks, soldiers, etc.