>>63824403 (OP)One of the most interesting things about drone warfare is not necesarily how it turns war into a remote operator thing or how it allows for automatization or having pervasive surveillance in your entire front.
But rather how much data it allows to be analyzed. In the past, to analize combat data you had to go through combat accounts(subjective, and people under stress easily over or under stimate) and after effects. So, you had good information before battle and after battle, but not during the battle, which was this mysterious place where things just happened. Now, this could be solved issuing a camera to at least one squad member, but viewing angles are not the same, not everyone can have one and there are risks of leaks(like the SOF operators wrecked in Central Africa some years ago).
Drone warfare instead, requires a camera, you can save the recording locally and you have information of exactly what the operators sees and does and even more(speed, position, drone attitude, signal, bands under EW...) you can analyze data finally bridging that gap, to the point that yet again, the problem is not the collection of data but how fast you can analyze all of it in a way that produces actionable intel and useful procedures in real time.
