In the BBC prime time spy thriller Vigil – now on a spectacular second series – we see Suranne Jones as the intrepid, and indefatigable DCI Amy Silva fighting the operators of a swarm of killer drones. First time out, she was dealing with espionage aboard a billion-pound Vanguard class nuclear submarine – hence the title Vigil.
From a warfare system costing billions, we got to UCAVS, unmanned combat aerial vehicles, now generated on the Ukraine front at the cost of a few thousand dollars apiece.
