[imrelaxed]

Agreed. Modern commercially available drones can follow targets, even if they are temporarily obscured, detect faces, path around obstacles and perform preprogrammed tasks. The higher end ones typically carry enough compute power to do fairly advanced video recognition and execute logic. All that’s really missing for weaponization is an articulated firearm.

[StavrosK]

What do you need an articulated firearm for? Isn't some C4 good enough?

Hell, why do you need the drone to be autonomous? There are $100 drones that can be piloted remotely from kilometers away.

[ryanmarsh]

> Isn't some C4 good enough?

Not by itself. An area weapon is fine, which is why I said grenade. They are effective even with enemy in defilade. Rifles are cumbersome, give their position away and have recoil.

> why do you need the drone to be autonomous

Electronic Countermeasures

[Abekkus]

Also, you can leave scores of drones lying in wait, and alert a small number of pilots to fly the right ones when motion is detected.

[HeadsUpHigh]

This is why autonomy might be desirable:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=turkish+soldiers+drone+jammer&t=ff...