Developing the technology in secret is probably quite possible. Large-scale deployment, though, building a large army of them, would probably be quite hard to hide, especially from modern satellite photography and information technology.
I suppose. Would that really give you enough of an advantage to be worth the diplomatic cost, though? The difference between a semi-autonomous Predator drone and a fully-autonomous Predator drone in military terms doesn’t seem all that significant.
Now, you could make a type of military unit that would really take advantage of being fully autonomous and have a real advantage, like a fully autonomous air-to-air fighter for example (not really practical to do with semi autonomous drones because of delayed reaction time), but it would seem like that would be much harder to hide.
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One issue is how easy it is to secretly build an army of autonomous drones?
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Developing the technology in secret is probably quite possible. Large-scale deployment, though, building a large army of them, would probably be quite hard to hide, especially from modern satellite photography and information technology.
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Why? Just build a large number of non-autonomous drones and then upgrade the software at the last minute.
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I suppose. Would that really give you enough of an advantage to be worth the diplomatic cost, though? The difference between a semi-autonomous Predator drone and a fully-autonomous Predator drone in military terms doesn’t seem all that significant.
Now, you could make a type of military unit that would really take advantage of being fully autonomous and have a real advantage, like a fully autonomous air-to-air fighter for example (not really practical to do with semi autonomous drones because of delayed reaction time), but it would seem like that would be much harder to hide.