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Countdown until its made into a weapon.

Drones are the future of warfare so you are a little late to complain about drones being used for warfare. The race is well under way.

“…used by both Russia and Ukraine for surveillance and for delivering bombs, goes for around US $2,000. You can get 55,000 of them for the price of a single F-35”

https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/drone-warfare-ukraine-26602790...

"Drones are the future of warfare so you are a little late to complain about drones being used for warfare. The race is well under way"

So it's not the future of warfare then by your own words, that's the present situation. What are you complaining about ?

https://thenewpress.com/books/theory-of-drone is a neat read from the (not that much) earlier period where drone warfare was asymmetric, trying to contextualize it in the broader history of warfare.

I was thinking more in the direction of a toy for kids aged 8-15.

Those better be some rich kids. 10 year old me would have jump at the chance to tinker with a functional drone like that.

It would have to be targeted to the kids with workaholic parents who neglect to spend time with their children, and thus need to spend big to demonstrate that they do, in fact, love their offspring.

The children in question would use the toy for 3 or 4 weeks, get bored of it, and move on.

We all know these people...

Those things aren't mutually exclusive.

Scale up the rotors, put a gun on it, and bam, fully autonomous mobile artillery!

Scale the whole thing down to the size of a cockroach, and put a poison tip dart on it!

I really hope development goes in this direction. Infantry should be obsoleted as soon as possible.

That way all us civilian Zam Wesell wannabes can have a go at it too!

Infantry soon being obsolete is a way of saying that people will no longer be able defend themselves from near-future weapons

Except with drones of their own.

Any defense over quantities has a statistical nature. You only need to die once.

The biggest/baddest drones will be available to the richest/baddest people, just like all military tech. This is not a great future.

Yep, get rid of the middle man and go straight to autonomous drones killing civilians instead

Add an explosive and it will pursue you. First flying and when you try to hide in a bunker it transforms and rolls on in after you.

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