...aircraft have been weaponized for a longgg time. Kamikaze pilots! That's been the problem, though. They cant be self-guided, you have to lose a human life in

...aircraft have been weaponized for a longgg time. Kamikaze pilots! That's been the problem, though. They cant be self-guided, you have to lose a human life in order to use them. And that's where rockets came from, the Germans started trying to figure out how to weaponize flight without losing soldiers (see V2 rockets). That's why autonomous control is so scary, it's the first time that this sort of thing is actually realistically hitting the point of being cost-effective, and especially scary when we're talking about it become cost-effective for really small forces to use. (I feel awful using a term like "cost-effective" when talking about human life, but that's the way military-types think about these things. Yuck.)