• Troy@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    I’m actually surprised it has taken this long.

    What surprises me even more is that organized crime hasn’t gotten on board much (yet). Like, screw drive by shootings – drone dropped grenades on rival gangs and such.

    Or that drones haven’t been used for “school shooting” type mass casualty attacks.

    Or that foreign countries haven’t snuck in with a sea can full of drones which fan out and attack infrastructure.

    Imagine a cruise missile as a drone carrier that just scatters anti-personnel drones along a flight path, each just finding a person indiscriminately.

    If there’s anything that Ukraine is teaching us, it’s that we don’t have countermeasures (yet). The autonomous versions are even scarier.

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      3 months ago

      We do have countermeasures, however many countries mothballed them because we thought them obsolete.

      The Gepard which has been proven to be invaluable in a close range AA role, is being pulled from scrapyards. Yes, the radar resolution has to be increased to effectively track small single use drones, but the technology is there.

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      3 months ago

      The state is incredibly far ahead of any individual mass murderer.

      For example there have been endless “school shootings” using advanced tech. We just call it “the war in gaza” or whatnot. #freepalestine