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[-] VanillaFrosty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Maybe, but honestly there isn't too much a need for them to thanks to the existence of things like TLO. Maybe for surveillance over less developed areas?

Idk I'm not happy about any of this but it's interesting to speculate what a modern day cyberpunk is going to look like.

[-] med@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

That's fair, there's other angles of observation made available already.

Seeing as you like speculating about cyberpunk, how about if observation is just the initial way to way to sell the drone cloud? Depending on how cheap you can make them, there's an argument to made for reducing time-to-intercept for low-speed aerial objects.

If you've got a bunch of drones overhead already, you could run one in to the path of a kamikaze drone, or if your swarm is even lightly armed, you can extend engagement range and reduce required accuracy with a single buckshot shell to shoot an offending drone down.

If you're content to prioritize executive safety over public saftey, there's a lot that can be done.

Drone displays terrify me.

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