That’s quite some food for thought, especially in a non-war context.
Reminds me about the short film “Slaughterbots” [1] and that one Black Mirror episode with the weaponized robotic bees.
5G already uses beam forming to establish link between the base station and end user. Maybe such a beam can be used to “blind” drones.
If the drone is above the net it'll have to stop mortar rounds (it won't)
If the drone is under the net you're fucked
At best you give them a free airburst, at worst the net does nothing.
Again, I don't hope that's our future, I just cannot understand why it's not our present already.
The US at least wants a human pressing the button and is not willing to let AI make a lethal order.
I'm old enough to remember exactly how crazy the US went after 9/11. It's going to take exactly one surprise attack on the US before it puts out the first weapons contracts for automated killbots.
In the case of US/Russia, I assume it's the prospect of mutually assured destruction that keeps our respective leaders from assassinating each other.