The interesting/scary part is that its not that hard to weaponise these drones. You can make one drop a home made explosive pretty easily, fully autonomous. and then dump itself into a body of water. All for way less cost than a gun.
I don’t know what drone you’re talking about but you absolutely cannot make a tiny Wi-Fi drone autonomous or drop things for less than a cost of a gun, every part of your statement is wrong. Currently anyone smart enough to build drone with 7 inch propellers and programmable GPS waypoints, improvised explosives … 3d printed release mechanism .. probably has a pretty good paying job and doesn’t see the value proposition of blowing things up
You know what you can easily do drive a truck into a crowd of people or fill your car with explosives in park it under a building and then blow up the entire building, but people aren’t doing that every day but continue whingeing about drones
>Currently anyone smart enough to build drone with 7 inch propellers and programmable GPS waypoints, improvised explosives … 3d printed release mechanism .. probably has a pretty good paying job and doesn’t see the value proposition of blowing things up
This is true, but the thing is, at least in United States, its not a matter of lack of talent to build these things, its mostly a lack of need to destroy stuff. Given how things are going in the world, where an assasin is currently being celebrated, I dunno if this is gonna hold.
In the same way, it can very well be possible to make these things under $300 with mass produced kits. Hook up a gps chip to it, and its easy to make it waypoint navigatable without manual control
The advantage of a drone is that the level of separation between the assailant and the crime goes up so much that it becomes next to impossible for Law Enforcement to assertain a suspect.
Autonomous isn’t a problem, the open source firmwares for drones include fully autonomous mode. I don’t know if this particular one does but it should be easy to port. The size and range, however, doesn’t make this particular drone very scary.
With this a lot of damage can be done even without drone. As for weaponized it's not a future, it's a reality in Ukraine for years now. Defense against them is difficult to impossible. A bodyguard who can sacrifice himself may sometimes work.
It's not scary when it is just a hypothetical. If this were happening with some frequency it would be concerning. Until then I suspect there is something you are overlooking, oversimplifying.
(EDIT: I'm assuming you are talking about non-military use.)
Its one of those things where once you can buy "kits" for it, you may see its use. Ukraine war videos popularized the idea of using drones to drop explosives.
I could see Cartels using this to take out targets.
I find it funny that the US is so obsessed with infantry firearms and surgical strikes that people think those are the best "ways to go" for certain things. I guess not a bad thing considering we don't need any improved means for those stuffs...
