America lives to bomb other countries, for a lot of reasons, of which, two of the most important are that bombers are seldom taken down by anti-aircraft gunnery or other aircraft because of the sheer distance in height that the bombers are when dropping their bombs from the sky, in addition to the fact, that the American public, does not like their soldiers dying in foreign wars or foreign insurrections, so that if the job can be done from the sky with minimal risk for our soldiers, then so be it. Of course, you would think the most important reason for bombing countries is that bombing works and does it job efficiently, but in actuality, bombing, by its very nature, destroys or damages, indiscriminately, an incredible amount of infrastructure of all sorts, as well as killing, maiming, and inconveniencing civilians. So too, because the bombs are dropped from so high up in the air, the overall damage on the ground, is something that is difficult to fathom or to comprehend, signifying that the recording of bombing missions by commercial-based drones, modified for their tasks, by the military, then streams such videos to the "cloud" would be of invaluable feedback. That is to say, bombing missions are mission specific, so that an aircraft that contained, for instance, several DJI Phantom 2 Quad-opter drones, in which each unit retails for less than $500 on Amazon, could possibly be used to record video, in which a hobbyist, has already created video as reported by popularmechanics.com, of such a drone recording video at an estimated 11,000 feet in the air.
The logistics of how these modified commercial drones would be utilized in order to record bombing sorties, can be left up to the military geniuses to begin with, but it certainly seems possible in the realm of things, that such an expense would be trivial for what these drones would provide via streaming live recordings before their batteries run out, which would be the actual footage of the immediate aftermath of bombing missions done on foreign territories, and one could easily make the argument, that this feedback of what and how effective our bombing missions werewould have a meaningful impact going forward, for it isn’t enough for the military to simply state that a particular mission is successful, without a more comprehensive proof of what destruction was wrought by the bombing of a foreign target.
In an era in which the America public, in general, wants to see far less boots on the ground, so that our soldiers are not at risk, in addition to America being the default first source to venture into conflict areas, there should be an obligation to actually have footage of what exactly is occurring when bombs are dropped onto their targets, so that adjustments may be made by those conducting such sorties, to reduce unnecessary civilian harm, to reduce unnecessary civilian infrastructure destruction, and to thereby advise our military authorities as to the overall effectiveness of our military operations done through such aerial bombardment. This means that inexpensive aerial drones that are structured to stream back live video would serve as our "eye in the sky" , providing raw and unedited footage that would help immensely in telling the tale of each mission launched.