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       2025-11-17T18:05:36Z
       
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       Some thirty or forty years ago Polish writer Stanislaw Lem wrote an essay about the future of warfare.He predicted that traditional heavy weapons would become so expensive as to be useless (so expensive they would be made in too small quantities, and way too valuable to risk losing).Thus he predicted that the biggest role in warfare would be played by cheap but numerous weapons.Ten or twenty years before that Lem wrote a science fiction story called _The Invincible_.This was an extremely powerful and heavily armed Earth battle starship which was defeated on a distant planet by huge swarms of _very_ simple flying machines.BBC:From florist to drone maker: How the weapon became so mainstream<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g3ydv2ygro>#Drones#Predictions#StanislawLem#StrengthInNumbers#Warfare