C ' mon now , Percy . It ' s fairly acceptable to talk about the fucking English , even if it is usually a bit tongue in cheek . <| sep |> Drones do cause more civilian casualties because they are operated remotely . There is a control lag between the drone sending images to the operator and the operator sending orders to the drone , which means drones can generally only effectively attack targets where you can be reasonably sure they won ' t move in the next 20 seconds or so , and you have to use a high explosive missile since the time delay makes precision munitions impractical . That basically means you have to blow up the terrorist when he ' s sitting down to have dinner with his family , you can ' t shoot him when he ' s driving down a road by himself .