The open source software used by amateur drones used in the attack that destroyed a third of the long-range strategic bombers of Russia on Sunday afternoon. 
At noon on Sunday, explosions were heard at air bases in Belaya, Olenya, and Ivanovo in Russia, which are hundreds of miles from Ukraine.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU)’s Operation Spider Web was a coordinated attack on Russian targets that the attackers claim was planned for more than a year. The attack was carried out using open-source drone autopilot software called ArduPilot. The software was created about 20 years ago.
The original creators of ArduPilot were surprised by the attack.
“This is ArduPilot, launched from my basement 18 years ago. Crazy,” Chris Anderson said in a LinkedIn comment below the video of the attack. On X, he tagged co-creators Jordi Munoz and Jason Short in a post about the attack.
“I never in a million years would have predicted this outcome. I just wanted to make flying robots,” Short said in a response to Anderson. “Ardupilot-powered drones just destroyed half of the Russian strategic bomber fleet.”
ArduPilot is an open source software system that takes its name from the Arduino hardware systems with which it was originally designed to work.
It began in 2007, when Anderson launched the website DIYdrones.com and put together a UAV autopilot system from a Lego Mindstorms set.
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