We’d better start dreaming up counter measures for this. We can defeat men, but not millions of swarming micro drones.
Make decoys that fool the face recognion and wear a mask?
I wonder if a cell phone jammer would disable them? A wet spaghetti mass of string projectile would work. Someday everyone may have defensive drones swarming around them to intercept any offensive drones targeting them.
Tennis rackets. Use proper grip and lots of over head swing practice.
I’ve spent years thinking the issue through. It’s not just the drone swarms, there will also be humanoid (more like gorilla-oid) machines which move faster than the eye can follow and punch through walls. Not decades from now, but within ten years for sure, five years possibly.
Jamming bandwidth will work initially, until they become fully autonomous. Passive defenses (stone and steel) will be of value, initially, until the machines become clever enough and powerful enough to rapidly disassemble just about anything. A shotgun with hardened slugs will be of value, initially, until the machines move too fast to see and have vital areas covered with armor. Despite the obvious tendency to create collateral havoc, EMP may be of value, initially, until the machines become hardened to it.
All passive defenses are doomed to fail, including living underground. EMP and firearms will not save us. The only realistic defense against fast and deadly machines long term, is other fast and deadly machines.