Drone surveillance.
Civilian airspace becomes a routine surveillance instrument.
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A single airframe replaces a tower, a perimeter team, and a manned helicopter on the same shift.
The brief
Why it would happen.
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But what about regulatory bottlenecks?+
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What about civilian privacy?+
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What would have to be true.
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Wouldn’t existing CCTV networks resist?+
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How does the unit economics actually work?+
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The five-year arc.
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What I got wrong.
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Discussion.
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