This sounds quite wonderful --- for the open battlefield. I quite support the use of anything humane that can reasonably improve our soldiers' intel on the ground, as intelligence is everything in a war.<p>That said. I am terrified of the thought that this could be used against a country's own denizens, be it by the police, or by the military actively seeking out targets of their own. Furthermore, while this is being developed by a country that is actually quite high on the freedom and anticorruption graphs, what happens when either those countries become more of a dictatorship; or, more likely to happen soon, countries that very clearly violate human rights, or generally oppress their people get a hold of them?<p>It's sad that, when looking at a technology, you have to look at both, "Wow! This is incredible! We'll lose fewer lives on the battlefield, and our soldiers will come safe because we can avoid traps, etc!" as well as "... someday, these are going to be acceptable to point at our own people, in the interest of something that doesn't deserve such invasion of ... everything." Countries are not God, and it's scary when they start trying to recklessly wield such omniscience. I know I couldn't trust myself knowing all that these drones could offer. I'm not sure I could trust many, if anyone, with such knowledge.