While the military is taking a step back from the forced moral issue, private industry will step in make this monstrosity and sell to the highest bidders. Video game Armageddon is/will be at hand and T series killer autonomous machines will be hunting the water sacks
And this is the world we have chosen to live in..said it before..we are vehemently paranoid when the government does something shysty but willingly offer up our daily lives to the harvesters on social media who can really manipulate and predict behavior. This is just the government verifying...
I find it amusing that some here have a choice of high speed providers..I have also..slow as f**k dsl or fast as hell cable...and no dsl and cable are not in the same league don't give a damn what the definition of high speed is :).
Birds (soft tissue mostly) will not just pass through an engine so don't kid yourself about minor plastic parts. A small standard 10/32 screw will and can cause major and potentially catastrophic damage and all drones have metal of some kind (to include batteries). I see minor and massive damage...