Human hunting drones with face recognition tech built into their books of good kills will probably be fielded too soon. Built in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors small, stealthy flying and crawling drones will replace passive land mines, recharge from the sun or maybe water (for fuel cell powered drones), and be purposed to attack military units with the correct uniforms, people of a given height and weight and so forth. Cheaper to field than human soldiers drones-of-war, military conflict can be regarded as becoming more tactical and not just a straightforward chess game.
In the future military unit survivability may be in advanced camouflage not only of visible and infrared spectra but of shape and form as well. Infrared and form recognition systems might be electronically spoofed to perceive a soldier as a tree or bolder, etc. Terrorists leading the way on camouflaging themselves as civilians may find that field crowded on a future battlefield wear unique opfor and friendly cadre identifiers are changed and recoded often in order that those regarded as fair and even legal kills are separated from those that are not. In a planetary bureaucracy those considered fair kills may evolve to political categories.
In the future military unit survivability may be in advanced camouflage not only of visible and infrared spectra but of shape and form as well. Infrared and form recognition systems might be electronically spoofed to perceive a soldier as a tree or bolder, etc. Terrorists leading the way on camouflaging themselves as civilians may find that field crowded on a future battlefield wear unique opfor and friendly cadre identifiers are changed and recoded often in order that those regarded as fair and even legal kills are separated from those that are not. In a planetary bureaucracy those considered fair kills may evolve to political categories.
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