[smoyer]

U.S. President George W. Bush said "When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."

This doesn't look at all decisive to me ... there's absolutely no way those little drones can pack the fire-power shown in that simulation.

The bigger question is why don't we try some bridge building first?

[MDib]

Are we sure that the drones themselves will be carrying payloads though? Just judging by the video and also just thinking about logistics of accurately bombing something from that airframe plus general sizes of ordinance, it looks more like they are lasing targets for some kind of guided ordinance launched from another platform.

The key benefit here is for them to be sent out to autonomously seek and 'destroy' without having to waste man-hours trooping through the bush looking for a target that may or may not be there.