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The year is 2030. The government of Tel Aviv has outsourced site-management of the Gaza relocation camp to Anduril Industries, which provides 24/7 full-spectrum security guarantees from their command center in Orange County, California. Nothing will get in -- or out.

America's allies are now safe from malevolent authoritarian actors.

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Israel doesn't need Anduril. They have a large domestic drone industry with decades of experience and a strong export sector. Israeli drones gave Azerbaijan a decisive edge in that country's recent armed conflict with Armenia. By some estimates, Israel is the world's largest exporter of military drones:

https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-israel-is-greatest-exporter...

They have a strong anti-drone industry, one area in which Anduril seeks to differentiate itself:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2019-08-...

And Israeli designed-and-built sniper drones have already killed people in Gaza:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/israeli-military...

I don’t follow. How do you get here from anti-drones? Terrorist Drone attacks just killed civilians at Dubai airport

These "anti-drone" drone-launching turrets will be briefly successful, until opponents code trivial evasive maneuvers (randomly perturb velocity) into their cheap attack drones. Then some genius at Anduril will say "what if our 'drone' was really small and got catapulted really fast to overcome any meaningful evasive capabilities of its target" and then you have autonomous rifle turrets, effective against a wide variety of targets.

But… there already are autonomous rifle turrets.

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