Almost certainly the future of warfare in similar ways to how Chemical Warfare was shaping up to be. This is a weapon that only works on a very small scale, be

Almost certainly the future of warfare in similar ways to how Chemical Warfare was shaping up to be. This is a weapon that only works on a very small scale, because as soon as it's deployed at even modest scale by an aggressor, the world will & should get very very very angry & would be immensely justified in taking extraordinary measures against any country deploying a system of such mechanized slaughter. That said, I don't think drones are quite as unstoppable as they might at first feel, at a nation vs nation scale. We're starting to get ok at laser defense, and that near-instant speed negates a lot of the advantages of a flighty, small drones. It'd be harder but we could probably also adapt flak & re-engineer a better "proximity fuse" that can acquire these small targets, and get decent results.