Prior to 2022 it seemed clear this was coming, fighters in Burma were using small drones against the dictatorship both for spotting and to drop explosives. It seemed like Ukraine was where real resources could be put into action, and things ramped up significantly. Before the videos from Burma I'm not sure where else to look, maybe Syria? There were drones used by ISIS but they seemed closer to military drones than what we see now with commercial drones or drone components used. I'm glad not be in the business of protecting people/infrastructure from harm.

I'm not sure that's accurate.

Drones have been in use long before Russia took any land from Ukraine in 2014.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_warfare#Notable_drone_st...

Sure, they’ve been around for a while.

However, a war like the one in Ukraine will accelerate the development and usage of drones. You could tell by the early usage in the first few months of the war.

Now more global defense dollars will go into the rapid development.

Wait until we see swarms of (semi)autonomous drones

> Wait until we see swarms of (semi)autonomous drones

Slaughterbots[ß] becoming reality in 3...2...1...

ß: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU

I think we are already there. "Optical targeting" and "edge computing" are terms getting tossed around in weird ways at times.