lithium batteries didn't become a readily available thing until just after the 90s started, and even then they were low grade and didn't hold a long enough charge to do what drones today do. the tech evolved and now we have this shit. it will only get better one day nobody will even launch missiles anymore. they'll release a cloud of these things with small explosives strapped to them in the high atmosphere and they'll slowly glide into a neighboring nation. they'll eject their little gliding wings or ribbons once they're low enough and then activate their quad rotors. then they'll start hunting targets. either vips or they'll go after infrastructure. imagine one of these going into every transformer on every power pole across the entire electrical grid. imagine them flying into cell phone towers. you could cripple a nations power and communications in one night and all anyone would hear is buzzing before it happened
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