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Re:China’s Giant Spy Drone Just Tailed a U.S. Navy Cruiser by redis_mlc on Monday July 29, 2019 @06:17PM (#20560033)
> UAVs make the world a lot safer.

Sweet Jesus, no.

The next world war will be started with drones. Without a bodycount, many politicians are ok with initiating conflict.

After all, who's gonna complain? No press, no moms, no VA patients - at first.

Until there's a loser, who gets "The Terminator", but for real.

Another scenario where drones are destabilizing is for surprise attacks. The most successful aerial attacks have been against bases (Pearl Harbor, Taranto, Egypt.) Drones would make planning first strikes even easier with real-time ground truth.

Re:China’s Giant Spy Drone Just Tailed a U.S. Navy Cruiser by Bendingo on Monday July 29, 2019 @09:28PM (#20561247)
> Without a bodycount

Only if you ignore all the inevitable civilian casualties.

Re:China’s Giant Spy Drone Just Tailed a U.S. Navy Cruiser by torified on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @12:57AM (#20562227)
No, that could never happen... /s

See: Wikileaks Iraq body count.