Some lucky boys and girls are going to find micro-suicide drones in their stockings this Christmas! Get your orders in now!
I was idly scanning the website of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, as one does, and I came across a story on a new product from the Israeli defence company Elbit Systems: the Lanius loitering micro-suicide drone. There was a promotional video attached, and I just had to look.
It shows this palm-sized drone flying into a house, searching through the rooms one by one, finding its target (a "bad guy" with a gun), and eliminating him with an explosion just big enough to kill everybody in that single room. The company's voice-over, delivered in the urgent, hyper-masculine monotone that is standard in the genre, is a classic of its kind.
