To be fair the swarms themselves without payload are also not weapons. It’s the capability to carry weapons autonomously in great swarms coupled with an inability to only target military installations/personnel.

Obviously depending on the type of drone traditional WMDs could be deployed with them.

> inability to only target military installations/personnel.

I think that's a good point that I missed. The "mass" part of it. But even if we coded drones to only target military, this could be turned off or changed.

Maybe we need code signing and weapons inspectors before determining if a swarm is a WMD or not.