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It's not the fighters you have to worry about.

It's the 24/7 always in the air drone bombers with AI that have zero hesitation to murder civilian targets on demand or by "accident".

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It's not the fighters you have to worry about, since those just take out whatever military may or may not be defending your country from the US. The ubiquitous surveillance cameras connected to private and governmental servers, monitoring and recording your activity, and running AI to profile you, is more worrying, since that's going to be most of your future life, not the air-battles.

And if I were to write this 20 years you might have still dismissed me as a kook or doomsday prophet, but now one could argue that's already half-implemented anyway rather than a description of a future dystopia.

You mean like the killings of BinLaden right hands, when a lot of civilians were killed as collateral victims ?

Avoiding that sort of collateral damage is why they've developed the AGM-114R9X, aka the "sword missile". It has no explosive warhead, instead it has 6 blades that unfold right before impact. It can turn anybody in one specific car into hamburger meat, while leaving bystanders on the side of the street unharmed.

These have been in use for a few years now. You can tell when they're used from pictures of the car wrecks they leave behind. A very distinct 6 pointed star shape cut through the car roof: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39109438

Sorry. I dropped chilli on my screen and when I wiped it off I accidentally right swiped and carpet bombed Manhattan.

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