Alas, poor MetalStorm, you were ahead of your time.
As a non-gun-knower, surely small drones are not gonna need a full on 7.62mm to shoot down? Even a 9mm (or .22?) seems like enough, and would massively reduce the footprint of the weapon and ammo while increasing its agility.
…now I wanna get silly and suggest rocket-propelled net guns.
Ah, sorry - I’d, uh, probably rolled my eyes and forgotten it, out of wanting anti-zombieslop-slop.
There’s a pretty good deconstruction of it, written from the perspective of a British survivor in Cuba, taking the position that the text is propaganda for the fascist successor state that took over the US.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/LetsReadWorldWarZ
“The singer, who keeps his identity secret.”
If only we could figure out who this mysterious hoodlum is. Unfortunately, as a newspaper, we are not equipped for this level of investigation.
Whelp, time to read Starfish again!
They’re using “sees” in the fairly lexiphanicistic* sense of “causes X to Y”.
*Pretentious use of words. Ironic.
Sortof? The nature of their work requires a very unromantic attitude. Since it’s stigmatised and left to them (so as to not bother decent, idealistic, folk), it seems inevitable that they’ll develop their own insular socialisation around it.