You can't see any potential use for AI-controlled hunter-killer drones connected to a massive internet surveillance system that can identify people participating in the civil war and track their location using their smartphone?
The military already has all this technology. They just need to put it together.
Yes, this is something I have heard of.
I'm also well-aware that your government actively encourages these rumours - they have super-weapons and amazing things, so there is no point in rebelling, so don't even try! The UK used to do that with its Navy back in the day - unsinkable ships and the like, you'd think they'd have used them against Germany more directly, but turns out, ta-da, they didn't exist.
Similarly, the Nazis declared they had secret superweapons that would turn the war against the Soviets - they actually did, but for whatever reason they didn't use their chemical stockpiles.
Do you have any idea how difficult it would be to make an AI-controlled hunter-killer drone connected to a massive internet surveillance system?
Do you understand the actual level of difficulty you would have for such a fire-and-forget weapon - for example, powering it, fuelling it, programming it, testing it - how would it react to a signal jammer, how would it react to a mask, how would it react to lower ammunition.
I'm not saying it isn't possible, but I am saying it's incredibly unlikely that the government has flying, sentient robots. That would be retarded. They do not "have all this technology" - "all this technology" is far beyond what we currently are capable of using, and even if it existed, it would be in no way deployable in a domestic theater.
Plus they already have weaponised plague, why would they bother with flying robots?
