Small suicide drones are really loitering smart bombs with a small payload. Some are evolving back into platforms as modern attack drones began.
Small attack drones are now small bombers:
Explosive first-person-view drones get a lot of the attention, but the most dangerous drones in the sky over Ukraine—especially for the Russians—are heavy bomber drones.
Where an FPV explodes on contact, making it single-use, a heavy bomber drone is reusable. It can strike repeatedly with a payload of several grenades and then return to base for more munitions.
Hovering to drop the grenades may be accurate but that makes them more vulnerable to being shot down when troops increase their awareness of this threat, no?
Could we see these bomber drones become dive bombers to use speed at bomb launch for aiming and some protection? And how long before its all just a Bonsai Air Force doing all the things big aircraft can't do close to the ground? But even then, we won't have victory through tiny air power.
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