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by sadfkhjasdf 1759 days ago
A better solution would be to use small drone swarms and create a surveillance state in the rural areas. Each drone can see about 100m2 at 100m height. So 10K drones for 1 km2 = 10 million dollars.

Attach weapons and you have zero risk of life and can maintain a permanent presence, that can essentially be automated by AI and computer vision.

And I've only spent 0.01% of the yearly spend on the war.

This is clearly the future of warfare.