Drones add the remote control’s range to the weapon’s range.

Evidence

Self-preservation by means of drones involves putting vulnerable bodies out of reach. This could be seen as the fulfillment of the ancient desire that inspires the whole history of ballistic weapons: to increase one’s reach so as to hit the enemy from a distance before the opponent can launch its own attack. But with drones, the weapon’s range (the distance between the weapon and its target) has been increased by the range of the remote control (the distance separating the operator from the weapon). Thousands of miles can now be interposed between the trigger on which one’s finger rests and the cannon from which the cannonball will fly. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 110

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s stated goal: how drone technology transforms the physical space of combat — operator and target separated by thousands of miles. — connects to: Drones multiplied ballistic reach by adding remote-control distance to weapon range; Drone-weaponized remote control radicalizes war into one-sided killing from safe zones; Armed drones make killing a priori one-directional, converting combat into slaughter. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 111

Related

• Drones multiplied ballistic reach by adding remote-control distance to weapon range (similarity 0.97)
• Drones evolved from surveillance eyes into lethal hunter-killer weapons. (similarity 0.90)
• Drone warfare pits unburdened machines against bodies bound by physical limits. (similarity 0.88)
• Drone-weaponized remote control radicalizes war into one-sided killing from safe zones (similarity 0.88)
• Drones transformed from surveillance eyes into weapons almost by chance. (similarity 0.88)
• Drone missiles have larger lethal radii than conventional infantry weapons (similarity 0.88)
• Armed drones make killing a priori one-directional, converting combat into slaughter. (similarity 0.87)
• Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.86)
• Present-day drones combine remote control and autonomous piloting. (similarity 0.86)
• Drones resolve the guerrilla problem by depriving insurgents of any target to attack. (similarity 0.86)
• Remote-controlled machines were proposed as a third option beyond protected men or autonomous machines (similarity 0.86)
• Drone technology severs visual discrimination from physical proximity to targets. (similarity 0.85)
• Drones transform war from combat-defined zones into pursuit-defined hunting grounds. (similarity 0.85)
• Drone killing is reduced to clicking on tiny on-screen figures (similarity 0.85)
• Historical continuity of remote killing does not justify drones (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Drone-weaponized remote control radicalizes war into one-sided killing from safe zones #expands (0.50)
• Armed drones make killing a priori one-directional, converting combat into slaughter. #expands (0.40) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 111