It has begun
It has begun
How they think they are going to die:
Fancy laser beam
How they are actually going to die:
Tagged by a toy drone carrying a hand grenade, while they are taking a shit behind a tree.
It must be horrific, waiting for the whine of the drone and never being safe from the observation drones overhead.
At least in the more recent wars one might feel safer behind the front line.
Look up the Soviet ’Night Witches’ of WW2.
The Commissars put the female pilots in the worst planes. But the ladies figured out a battle plan. Their tiny biplanes could glide for miles; so they’d wait for nightfall, load up with bombs, and fly as high as possible. Then they’d silently glide over the German lines.
Garth Ennis did a pretty good graphic novel about them.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-night-witches-garth-ennis/d739f5017e40a18c
waiting for the whine of the drone
hmm… a great way to fuck with russians - something like an annoyotron - geekextreme.com/annoyatron-holy-grail-of-pranks/
but it plays quadcopter noises randomly.