[forktheif]

Again with the drone bashing.

Civilians got killed by manned aircraft too. A-10s launching Hellfires at a wedding party, or AH-64 Apaches gunning down farmers in a field. It happens. And whether the pilot is sitting in the aircraft or a thousand miles away makes no difference. It's the same imperfect people making the same imperfect decisions based on imperfect information.

[classicsnoot]

The issue is not that it happened. The issue is not that people died. The issue is that Drone Warfare allows rich people in power to remotely kill people they deem as threats whilst selling a story of reduced casualties on both sides. The casualties of this kind of war will be human at first...

[votingprawn]

> allows rich people in power to remotely kill people they deem as threats whilst selling a story of reduced casualties on both sides.

Don't expensive manned aircraft with (the same) expensive precision guided munitions allow rich people to do exactly the same thing?

A manned aircraft could perform these missions with the same level of "collateral damage" and minimal risk to the pilot.