Quote Originally Posted by carl View Post
If you drop a hand grenade accurately from however high you choose, it is still just a hand grenade. And you may be able to put it precisely on a target but you have to be able to see and identify a target. If there is something between your sensor and what you want to hit, a tree a roof or a rainstorm, it won't matter how deadeye you can be because you can't hit what you can't see. No matter anything else, it is still a very expensive way to deliver a munition.
A couple points:

- The problem we face today is not being unable to put enough ordnance on a target, but rather putting too much ordnance on target and the collateral damage it produces.
- Sensors these days are pretty amazing; not being able to see things is less and less of a problem.
- Just because DOD has a corrupt procurement system that gold-plates the hell out of everything, it does not necessarily mean that drones are expensive –- in-fact the technology is incredibly cheap.