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This is the future of warfare and terrorism worldwide. Coming to a conflict zone near you.

US is doing a lots of shit in Middle east right now and the new kids will grow to revenge, it will be interesting times since the drones doesn't costs much.

This is going to get nasty really fast until defensive technology catches up a lot of really expensive targets are very vulnerable.

That being said all you really need to do is install defensive netting at bases. You don’t even need hangers so relatively inexpensive retrofit. That will probably cause drones to shift to dropped minions but at least those are less accurate.

I'm not convinced that what the US does or doesn't do now will have any impact on Muslim extremists' desire for revenge against Israel, the US, and the West. That ship sailed a long time ago. They seem to be in permanent revenge mode.

> hat the US does or doesn't do now will have any impact on Muslim extremists' desire for revenge

well current actions certainly aren't helping

The US has stopped antagonizing Vietnam, and as a results its image there is quite good. Granted, it has been a hot minute since the Vietnam war.

The US was a short blip to the Vietnamese compared to China.

Vietnamese are not mad at the USA because they have won the war.

that permanent revenge mode also goes beyond just US & Israel

Anywhere, not just conflict zones. There was a decades long terror campaign against planned parenthood and other clinics in the USA and white supremacist nut jobs keep trying to start a race war every five to ten years with bombing and shooting sprees, the weekly school shooting in the USA, and there’s the using a vehicle worldwide for killing civilians by incels/fundamentalists of all stripes. This opens up a new venue for those inclined to act.

And laser guns for defence.

But we are quite close to having (prohibitively expensive) flying cars!

And for defense of ships in port, they are mounted on sharks.

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