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How about insect-sized assassination drones? http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/06/what-is-the-political-equilibrium-when-insect-sized-drone-

How about insect-sized assassination drones? http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/06/what-is-the-political-equilibrium-when-insect-sized-drone-assassins-are-available.html http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/06/wha... Excerpt: "Not bee drones, rather drone drones, with military and terrorist capabilities. There is already a (foiled) terror plot using model airplanes. How easy would it be to stop a mechanical “bee” which injects a human target with rapidly-acting poison?"

ChuckMcM 13y ago
Well you can fantasize of course :-) Actual small flyers with both useful range and telemetry are still science fiction. The number to watch is the energy density / energy consumption ratio. Dragonfly like devices can currently get airborne and fly a few 10s of meters, but that is without any cargo capacity at all. Not that someday it won't happen, rather that today you could carry a 12 ga shotgun shell around with a camera that lets you see where you are. All of that tech is 'off the shelf' today. Hence the more immediacy of the change.