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It wouldn't need to drop grenades. It could pick you up, fly high enough, and drop you to your death. Never runs out of ammo, just batteries.

This is pretty horrifying. Bonus points if you hit somebody on the way down?

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If a drone wanted to kill you, it would use a bullet. Cheapest and easiest way, with the least risk to the drone.

The extraction case would only be for high-value targets (enemy military/economic/political leaders), where having them alive would give leverage on having them order their organizations to do something useful for the drone owner.

Cheapest and easiest way to kill people is starvation and disease. Bullets are quick but relatively expensive compared to that

Slow which makes it costly in terms of active war

Cutting supply lines is a legitimate and very much used tactic.

While it is in modern days you don't cut supply lines to starve people to death, you start cuts supply lines to cut them off from munitions. The space used to transport a singular artillery shell could feed a human for several days, probably even weeks depending on what you put in the space. The modern military tries to be firing thousands of artillery shells per day. So if you can eliminate just a few artillery shells, you can make a difference. Whereas, if any your people are hungry but not starving to death.

Not targeted. While it's true that starvation and disease are usually the biggest killers in any armed conflict, they tend to kill the poor, helpless non-combatants, because the military tends to redirect food and medical care toward soldiers or other key personnel. This makes these strategically ineffective. People will die from starvation and disease in large numbers, but usually not the people who pose a threat to you.

Yeah they're not going to 'snatch and drop' gadzooks.

They're going to 'snatch' because they want prisoners to exchange, they want info, etc.

Bullets are probably more economical.

It's usually an fpv with some explosives up their bearded ass.

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