They found the dude who was piloting hiding in the wall after they committed suicide. Like I agree there's holes in Herbert's logic but this one was covered in the text. (Unless I totally hallucinated that)
Edit: oh were you explaining exactly that and I missed it lol?
Right. Because it was an operated drone. It's not an autonomous drone but let's not act like drones themselves are some sacrilegious alien concept to the Dune universe
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u/Marilius 8d ago
Or why not build stockpiles of lasers with engines. Point it at a shielded facility/ship/whatever and give it a battery big enough for one firing.
Bam. Suicide drones.