That's how our societies work : UAV are a very promising technology, but there is no money to develop them, unless the military is interested.

It's not all negative though, because it seems to me that a swarm of UAV is far more dissuasive than a nuclear threat in theaters such as the Middle East.

Remain the Japanese to keep trying the civilian market, and what Yamaha does is quite interesting, one can imagine endless applications to this kind of machine :
http://www.gizmag.co.uk/go/2440/