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The mission for a drone loaded up with missiles is to kill people, not to get into some chess match with your enemy's drones.
by epoxyhockey 15y ago
The mission for a drone loaded up with missiles is to kill people, not to get into some chess match with your enemy's drones.
- shabble 15y agoIt's theoretically possible (although definitely implausible) that drone/remote warfare will play out on the economic battlefield, rather than the human one. In the same way that the space race was an economic proxy of the Cold War, and fairly successfully bankrupted and toppled the USSR. If you play drone vs drone, eventually someone is going to run out of drones, and the means and funds to build more - they are the de-facto losers. It'll be nigh-impossible to keep this contained though, when the enemy realises that for a modest loss of their drones, they can take out your C&C bases or level your munition factories. One of the most recent Culture novels by Iain M Banks -- Surface Detail -- explores in part a similar issue, where two factions agree to settle their differences in a virtual-reality war simulation, but those losing decide to escalate it into the physical realm.