I can only wonder how long it will be, before I present to you this very same scenario live from your own backyard. Very soon our own skies will be flooded with drones, because they are being tauted as the latest "must have"
for every local police force across the country, and quite a few of the major cities already have plans for the implementation of their use.
How soon will it be when we can finally understand the implication of the saying
"We're all Iraqis now"?
My own personal guess? Before the end of the year, if not just a little bit sooner.
Lance Corporal Christopher Roney, 23, of 3rd Battalion The Rifles, died from head injuries he suffered while serving at Patrol Base Almas, in Sangin, Helmand, in December 2009.
The base had come under attack from insurgents and the platoon based there were busy fighting them off when air support was called in, Coroner Derek Winter said.
A drone fitted with a camera and two US Apaches flew to the patrol base, which was a compound with mud walls, bought from a local owner some weeks before and was not on official maps.
British troops on the ground, who by this stage had won a firefight against their attackers, were incorrectly identified as the enemy and were hit by 30mm chain gun rounds.
Mr Winter, the Sunderland Coroner, said 200 rounds were fired before the mistake was spotted, leaving 11 injured on the ground
