Another mission profile that has been mentioned to me, already existing everything:
A bird-sized and bird-appearing drone that is launched to sit in a tree or on a roof across the street from the target’s address.
It just sits there looking all day at the driveway and porch and doors, looking for its target face. While it waits, it recharges with it’s little solar wings.
It can wait for months. When it sees its target face, it lifts off, swoops in, and explodes a grenade in it’s face.
“It can wait for months. When it sees its target face, it lifts off, swoops in, and explodes a grenade in it’s face.”
Other mounted technologies doing the same thing is very disturbing: “See, the mounted sniper rifle only shoots the intended target identified by facial and other physiological recognition criteria. If you aren’t the bad guy e need dead you have no problems, see.”
Imagine these killing systems mounted all over the place.
That’s a Western Union message, you want some one to know.
Consider what seems to be a swarm of yellow jackets hovering around trash cans on the Washington Mall, an area chock full of gourmet food trucks. Everybody wants to avoid them, staying away from closer scrutiny. As per your sit, watch, identify, strike scenario, this swarm or multiple swarms buzz around, every now and again a few fly off, regular hornet behavior. Who the hell knows where they go. Maybe tree top to recharge. Come out every day at lunch, normal. But with a payload of concentrated venom. Multiple stings, many stings, hornets fly off, massive anaphylactic shock. No straggler bugs, no stingers but plenty of witnesses, just one of those things that happens here and there, Tragic. Even if one or more of the bugs is discovered, whose are they? Prove it. Fast and Furious indicates that evidentiary proof means nothing today.
This administration has proven over and over that it has no moral code whatsoever, just the type to consider such action as expedient.
The best murder is the one never discovered to be a murder. If swarm behavior is autonomous, as you said, guilt feelings never get a chance to hatch.
“It just sits there looking all day at the driveway and porch and doors, looking for its target face. While it waits, it recharges with it’s little solar wings.”
There’s an even cuter idea - birdbots that perch on electrical wires to induction charge. Of course, there’s no reason it couldn’t do both. However, with induction charging the bot could look pretty darn realistic.
That type of bot could operate autonomously indefinitely.