When do we get slaughterbots?

why

>spends billions over billions of dollars in drone and rocket technology
>meanwhile your opponent just release a super virus

We have laser systems that can take out mosquitos. These drones aren't gonna be armored and don't pretend a copper skin will help them

I don't think you actually need something like that.
You probably can fry the cameras with a bright enough array of leds, pretty much pulling a "solar flare".

*wears helmet*

>2025 looks pretty much like megaman X because everyone wears helmets and armors to stop drone strikes

Assuming you were trying to kill some protected individual like a say, a leader of a country perhaps, it would be unrealistic to use a drone to fire a bullet. It has to be small enough, quiet enough, and be able to fire from far away enough to avoid detection, at least until the target is down. That would require fairly sophisticated fire control software to ensure the drone remains stable to maximize the odds the projectile hits and this all assumes the target is completely stationary.

A better solution would be a drone that fires a poison tipped dart since it's smaller and lighter and so the drone could be smaller and lighter.

For someone that does have the benefit of a group of people protecting them then it's more reasonable to use a larger drone firing bullets because how are people going to stop it? Even if a person were armed I don't think their odds of hitting a drone are great.

Perhaps the solution of the future will be to walk around carrying broadband jammers in your pockets to prevent drone attacks but then again it's not a great solution if the drone is capable of killing you from outside your jamming range.

Automated AA systems would be installed publicly if drones became an actual public threat. Otherwise they'll just remain a tool of assassinations where high profile people wheel their own AA systems to events

I don't think some plastic helmet will make a difference against shape charges. And metal would be quite heavy to wear every day. Better start training those neck muscles.

jamming does nothing if the drone can navigate autonomously. Maybe not today's drones. but imagine solid state lidar miniaturized enough that drones can use it too for navigation.

>Assuming you were trying to kill some protected individual like a say, a leader of a country perhaps, it would be unrealistic to use a drone to fire a bullet. It has to be small enough, quiet enough, and be able to fire from far away enough to avoid detection, at least until the target is down.
That is assuming they can get into an armored vehicle fast enough. What if you release a swarm of drones indoors that hunt down the target before they can reach safety. Bodyguards might be able to throw themselves in the way of one drone, but not dozens.

Think of more advanced ones that can zig-zag and do acrobatics within hallways.

Why have something unnecessary complicated when one could just use poison.

You still need a targeted delivery system for the poison.

that eventually kills them too

That's retarded. Those aren't the kind of drones they're referring to when they talk about military drones. Those are way to defenseless for any kind of military usage.

Guns are not meant to survive, they are meant to kill.

>take out chickenwire
>warp it like a hat around you at a distance of 30 cm

wow that was hard

Guns are meant to survive, they can't kill if they are destroyed