re: #130 Targetpractice

These are the sorts of people who believe the government is reading their email, sorting through their garbage cans, and keeping 24 hr surveillance on them through the use of satellites and embedded chips. To them, UAVs are just another sign of the government’s ever-growing encroachment on their lives and the inevitable day when they get hauled off to a FEMA camp and exterminated for not buying into the New World Order’s master plan.

Shit, I just described the bulk of cyberpunk fiction.

I was just thinking that this new “64 drone bases” “report” is the new FEMA camps for the drone bunch. They’re using most of those for training. The civilian uses include atmospheric research, border surveillance, maritime patrols, etc. Albeit it’s still very minimal. Of course you can deck out modern helicopters with a lot of electronic gear. Most have infrared sensors.