New drones are equipped with sub-missiles.

The Turkish drone shot down an aerial target with a radar-guided missile. That thing means that drones are advancing faster than anybody thought. 

“Turkish industry and media alike have heralded the recent live-fire test in which a Kizilelma uncrewed combat air vehicle (UCAV) used a Turkish-made air-to-air missile to destroy a target drone. Turkey claims the test marks the first occasion a UCAV has launched a radar-guided air-to-air missile. But, while undoubtedly impressive, there are unanswered questions about how the engagement actually played out, especially to what degree the UCAV was being controlled by crewed fighter jets.” (TWZ, Turkey’s Fighter-Like Kizilelma Drone Shot Down Aerial Target With Radar-Guided Missile)

Polish novelist Stanislaw Lem predicted that the future of weapon systems is in two types of weapons. The weapons. That price is very high. And in a cheap intelligent system that can involve billions of actors. The AI itself is cheap. And even the cheapest drones can turn hard targets. If they have the AI operating flight control. A large quadcopter can carry large missiles. There is a possibility that the quadcopters can operate as flying platforms. For large missiles like Harpoon and other anti-ship missiles. 

The large-sized quadcopter can hide behind the island. Or some other visual obstruction. Another smaller drone can peer at the target. When the target is in the hit radius. The missile-carrier guadcopter. That can be a wire, radio, or AI-operated. Can jump over the visual obstruction or send the missile over it. 

The missile with an optical seeker locks the target. And travels to it. A drone that moves horizontally and vertically. All the time. They are not an easy target. The drone can shoot a missile at a moving target. And then search for an easier target. The quadcopter that carries a Stinger-type missile can harm flying aircraft and helicopters. The reason why those drones are not as effective is that. As they could be in low-power computers. 

Drones at the factory. 

The size of the drone determines. The size of the payload that it can carry. The drone that carries a large missile. And the wire-operated can offer things like ships, with very good strike capacity. Those drones are protected by jamming transmissions. And that allows the ship to spread its operation. The Shahed and Geran drones can be easy targets for air defence. But that requires. The air defence is prepared for this type of attack. 

A large-sized quadcopter can carry even intercontinental ballistic missiles, ICBM. And act as their moving launching platforms. Basically, any ship or truck can take a cassette of drones into its container. And things like Shahed drones are deadly tools if the opponent is not prepared. The drone can operate platform-free. That means. The crew can simply. Move those drones to the ship deck and launch them to the target.  It’s lucky that Russians don’t have advanced AI that helps to aim those drones precisely. 

The Shahed drone with a R-60 "Vympel" missile. 

There is a possibility. The Shahed-drones can carry the rocket booster. When the drone sees the target, it activates its rocket and hits that point. The AI-controlled version of the Shahed drone can offer pinpoint accuracy to the attacker. That AI-controlled drone can be equipped with the Hellfire-type optical seeker.  That gives it a powerful and feared attack capacity. 

 New Shahed-136 drones can be equipped with air-to-air missiles. The Ukrainian air defence shot down the Shahed-136 drone, equipped with the R-60 “Vympel” (AA-8 “Aphid) missiles. That means the drones are becoming increasingly sophisticated. The kamikaze drone, equipped with air-to-air missiles or air-to-surface missiles, can be deadlier than anyone expected. The Turkish drones have more advanced missiles and other systems than the Shahed Drones. And if Russian drones do not work. That doesn’t mean that other drones will not work. 

There is a possibility that this kind of pilot project is not as effective as it could be. But we must remember the Russian wire-guided drones. The first versions were equipped with some old anti-tank missiles. But then those systems advanced to systems that use optical fibre to transmit control signals. Those drones can hit even tens of kilometres from the front. 

Beriev A-50 

“Russia has fielded a new version of the Shahed-136 kamikaze drone armed with a single R-60 air-to-air missile. In principle, the heat-seeking R-60 would give the one-way attacker a way to engage Ukrainian fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, and create a deterrent threat, but the effectiveness of this combination is unclear.”(TWZ, Russian Shahed-136 Kamikaze Drones Now Armed With Air-To-Air Missiles)

We know that the Russians have problems with the AI, and this thing makes those drones probably ineffective. Remote control means it's easy to jam. And the Shahed 136 is slow, with a propeller operating system. But in AI-controlled drones, those combinations can be deadly. And if those systems are installed in the Geran 3 drones, they can cause grey hair. It’s possible. Those drones. They are. Some kind of experimental systems. There is a possibility. The anti-radiation missiles can also be installed on those drones. When the drone or the missile’s homing head sees radar. That system shoots the anti-radiation ammunition. To the radar. 

Geran 3. 

Those sub-missiles can cause damage or destroy fighters and helicopters that are sent to intercept those drones. There is a possibility that we will see the Geran-3 type drones under the high-speed jet fighters. Those drones can offer a 1000-kilometre hit radius. For jet fighters’ weapon systems. The AI-controlled drones. With autonomy. AI-operated optical target recognition and attack systems can also operate against other aerial targets while they travel to the targets. 

That thing offers the possibility. To enhance those weapon systems' capacity to level. That's never been seen before. The new types of drones that can have. The Hellfire-type seeker, advanced AI. And the GPS-independent homing systems can be weapons never seen before. The GPS independence means inertial. That is connected. The terrain contour matching systems. And optical sensors give those systems independence from the GPS. This is why the Beriev A-50 planes are so important to Russia. Maybe operators in those aircraft guide drones. That travel to targets. 

Or the A-50 operates as a relay station for control signals. But if the drone’s  control signal is cut, the A-50. Or some other local crew must take control. Or the controller can sit in a ground station. Like some mobile device and then send data as a laser beam into those A-50 planes. Another version is that the vehicle is connected to the wired internet. And the system operator sits in Moscow. In those cases, the A-50 plane transforms those optical signals into radio waves. 

Aircraft-based radar systems create the 3D maps by scanning areas. And the A-50 also has a look-down capacity that allows it to see low-flying missiles. The Russians use that data to plan their drone missions. There is a possibility that the Russians use one remote-controlled drone that sends guidance signals to other drones. 

https://www.twz.com/air/russian-shahed-136-kamikaze-drones-now-armed-with-air-to-air-missiles

https://www.twz.com/air/turkeys-fighter-like-kizilelma-drone-shot-down-aerial-target-with-radar-guided-missile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriev_A-50

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shahed_136

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-60_(missile)