Drones have already reshaped the war in Ukraine, and this DW Documentary film asks what happens when the next step arrives: weapons that choose and kill targets without a human pulling the trigger. Military officers, engineers, and arms-control researchers explain how far autonomous targeting has actually progressed, moving past sci-fi speculation into systems already being tested and deployed. Footage from the Ukrainian front shows how cheap commercial drones have been weaponized on a mass scale, forcing militaries worldwide to accelerate research into machines that can operate with less and less human oversight. The film pushes into the harder questions underneath the technology: whether responsibility for a killing changes when no person made the final call, whether treaties can meaningfully restrict a technology this cheap to build, and whether battlefield autonomy inevitably migrates into policing and civilian life. Interviews with defense analysts and ethicists sit alongside demonstrations of current drone hardware, giving the film a grounded, reported feel rather than a speculative one. It closes without a comfortable answer, only a clearer picture of how fast the decision is being made for us.