There are also probably ethical concerns wrt devices that can run a human lifetime without intervention. You gonna put weapons on any of those? (Someone wants to.)
Quite right Mr. Bond, a fleet of wake homing betavoltaic glider torpedoes that once launched will disperse into the world's oceans and make them an unsailable for the next 50 years. People will have no choice but to move the world's freight with my heavy lift zeppelins or suffer the consequences. And speaking of consequences Mr. Bond... it seems your luck has run out for the last time.
Anyone who wants to won’t care about ethics. And anyone who wants to make money wouldn’t bother to consider someone repurposing an existing one for that purpose until it made such a big mess the gov’t got involved (generally).
That said, ITAR is a huge hassle, and threatening to put something on it would get a manufacturers attention.
Quite right Mr. Bond, a fleet of wake homing betavoltaic glider torpedoes that once launched will disperse into the world's oceans and make them an unsailable for the next 50 years. People will have no choice but to move the world's freight with my heavy lift zeppelins or suffer the consequences. And speaking of consequences Mr. Bond... it seems your luck has run out for the last time.