A Very Short Horror Story
Nightmare Two 10-man squads on night patrol. State of the art night gear and weapons. Threat protection alarms go off. Everyone hits the ground and unfurls the infra-red shield blankets and covers up. Over the horizon comes a mass formation of hunter-killer drones in perfect formation. Thousands of them. Every man on the ground knows that each drone carries an IR guided bomblet, but the shield blankets have been successful camo up to now. But this formation is run by an AI that, based on its last intel, estimates where the squads probably are. The AI is extraordinarily good at estimating. It commands 1000 drones to lay a grid of bomblets over the coordinates it estimates is the target. The two squads are completely ground up. 8000 bomblets a-coming The swarm briefly reorganizes into a victory celebration dragon, then reforms into the attack matrix and goes hunting for more victims. After we bomb you, we will dance on your graves. ...