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[civilitty]

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

[stronglikedan → civilitty]

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

[scotty79 → stronglikedan]

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

[barbariangrunge → scotty79]

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

[kspacewalk2 → barbariangrunge]

Except with drones of their own.

[varjag → kspacewalk2]

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

[jl6 → kspacewalk2]

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

[civilitty → scotty79]

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

[King-Aaron → scotty79]

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

[christkv → civilitty]

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.