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These serious logical answers are no fun at all
Ok then - its so you can get a bike in without having to take the front wheel off.
This is possibly the drone equivalent to the little British remote ‘tank’...
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/songar-machine-gun-drone/
The British one is smaller to make it harder for US pilots to accidentally bomb.
Sadly, so very, very true. It also hasn’t got a Union Flag painted on the top, to make it an easier target for a National Guard A-10 pilot to shoot at from 10,000 ft.
somewhatslightlydazed
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No more than any other lethal weapon. The BBC article states that the weapon will be fired by a human operator as AI isn’t that good. So its just a logical development in stand-off weapons. There not that much difference between one human killing another with an arrow at 300 yards, a rifle at half a mile, or a machine gun from half a world away – you still need to aim at your target and pull the trigger.
Mmm. There's a difference between aiming a rifle and pulling the trigger, and sitting in your climate controlled bunker with a keyboard and pad controlling your drone. Much less connection to the reality of your actions.
Much less connection to the reality of your actions
True but also that detachment means emotions and panic reactions don't come into play, hopefully less chance of an old man with a walking stick getting mistaken for an enemy with a gun by a flawed split second decision. Whether that's the reality or not I don't know, there's obviously been a lot of civilian deaths due to drone strikes but I assume most of that comes from it being far more difficult to identify targets from the air rather than some gung-ho yank wanting to blast anything that moves as if he's in a video game.