[nabla9]

I don't fully understand how there is real difference?

If you give a swarm of drones a kill zone and time limit, then they try them to kill every human in the area, how is that so different from MLRS salvo?

Cruise missiles are already slaughterbots. You just give them location and they kill everyone in that location.

[dgan]

Location is wrong argument. The article specifically points out that those drones were said to follow retreating fighters, and keep shooting un-discriminately

[stickfigure]

Retreating fighters are still combatants. Surrendering fighters would be a different matter.