Drones are going to change the way ground wars are fought. There is no risk of life for a drone operator.
Give ‘em no more than a year. Advances in portable (hummVee) lasers designed to take them down will kill them off easily.
Another five years after that and aerial superiority will be a thing of the past.
As to operators, another drone sent up to find the signals controlling the attackers will make it suicide to hold a remote. There is no security on those.
It’s all going to change when the robot drones walking and carrying machine guns get fielded. Worse when the FBI, ATF, LAPD, etc start using them. Better pile up some black tip.
Not necessarily.
Even with microprocessors, small drones are highly vulnerable.
I assure you that they’re working on ‘drone defense in a box’ that will be fielded in the coming months.
Additionally, counter fire upon the operators will be brutally swift & accurate.
The age of ‘cheap/effective’ offensive drones may already have passed.
Assuming, of course, that US DOD changes direction...
“Drones are going to change the way ground wars are fought. There is no risk of life for a drone operator.”
That’s a very static way of looking at it. The same was said about tanks.