Yeah FPV drones have massively increased the cost of invading a country. It's basically a return to WWI style trench warfare, except no man's land is the size of the range of the drones (20+ KM).

It's always been pretty horrific. We just didn't have bodycam livestreams invented during trench warfare times.

Hopefully making the real horrors of war visible to the public/world will make war less frequent. Alas...

A month ago Sternenko had a crowdfunding campaign for the secret drones. Recently he showed the fruits of that campaign: new drones have better connection and now you can watch kills in 4k!

Also recent advances in battery tech brought increased energy density: the same drones which had range 20km now have 40km.

Most of us who build weapons of war live with some awful dilemmas. One of them is:

We want to perform our work skillfully, effectively, and professionally. But we never want our tools to actually be needed.

(Another is that we can't effectively create a shield without the risk of it being used as a sword.)

Yes, but it's not necessarily more horrific than the unseen effect of the 155mm shells. It's just that those don't come with killcams.

(The killcam is a WW2 invention, starting with linking cine cameras to the machine guns of fighter aircraft)

Depends on who's on the receiving end.

Actually nothing cheers me up more than seeing Russians being hunted down and killed by drones. Fuck them.

I agree. Nightmare fuel.

Invaders getting blown up from the sky. What’s not to love?