Drones can be more powerful than anybody expected.

All technical systems are entire. The manufacturing process and guidance systems are things that require small. And effective microchips. High-power, small-size, low-voltage microchips allow drones to run more complex algorithms than ever before. This is one of the things that causes grey hair for defenders. Even small-sized drones may have semi-active targeting systems. The idea is that the controller aims the camera at the target. And gives the attack order. 

After that, the drone locks its seeker to the target. This system can improve the optical-wire drone’s attack capacity. The operator can keep the wire connected to the drone. And then use its target camera to point at the target. Then the image recognition system locks the system and cuts the wire. The AI-based system can help drones avoid the fire. 

And attacks it. We can see that the use of drones is very versatile. The MQ-9 “Reaper” drones faced massive losses in Iran during operation “Epic Fury”. 24 of those drones are lost. That can mean. The MQ-9 has a mission. To pull enemy fire into them. And then stealth aircraft or some other systems attack those AA batteries. When the AA crew sees the MQ-9, there is no other possibility than to shoot. If Reaper sees the AA cannon and shoots its missile, the target will be eliminated. 

But this means that the next generation of drones is coming. Those drones are stealthy and far smaller than MQ-9. Or. Otherwise, they can be faster than MQ-9. That planned to operate in the airspace. Where there is no enemy fire. The slow. Push-propelled MQ-9 lacks stealth capacity. And that makes it vulnerable. Things like Chinese inventions that can generate electricity for small drones. It can make it possible. To create plasma-jet engine-based systems. They are very fast, small, low-cost, and easy to make. 

Geran-3

MQ-9 Reaper

U.S. Aircraft losses in operation “Epic Fury”. (TWZ)

One way to improve. The range of a drone is. To connect it to another drone.  The big drone can pull a smaller drone. But another thing is that. Things like solar-powered stealth drones can carry smaller strike drones to strike distances. Electric-powered solar-powered drones can have theoretically unlimited operational range. The only thing that limits those systems is the need for light. But remote charging systems can solve that problem. The small electric-powered drone. It can also use rocket auxiliary engines. When the drone is at the right distance, the system launches a rocket engine. That accelerates its speed. 

Those small drones can act. Like a bullet swarm. The shape of those systems can be similar to Geran-3, which uses jet engines. The Geran-3 can attack both airborne and ground targets from a very long distance. And we must remember that the Ukrainian operator hit the Shahed-drones in airspace that is 500 km from Ukraine. The thing is that. The new systems. That can include an after-burner using AI-boosted drones. 

Or a plasma jet engine using systems that can operate over very long distances can turn the drone war into the next generation. Fast-flying drones can hunt enemy planes and ground targets over long distances. And that means those systems can stalk aircraft near airfields. And when aircraft are ready to lift off. Or in the landing procedure, those drones can attack. 

The drone can affect the target itself. Or it can use things. Like GPS transmitters to the decks of warships. They can also drop those GPS locators in the ammo supplies. The drone itself can glue those transmitters to the point where they are invisible. The system. It can be a radio transmitter that helps munitions home to the target. This means that drones can be more dangerous than anyone expected. A drone can also drop things like eavesdropping tools to the enemy HQ. 

https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/next-generation-jet-engine-converts-electricity-directly-into-thrust/

https://defensemirror.com/news/39493/Russia_s_Geran_3_Jet_Powered_Kamikaze_Drone_Ready_for_Operations

https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-microwave-beam-recharges-drones

https://www.sustainability-times.com/research/the-end-of-jet-fuel-next-generation-engine-uses-electricity-alone-to-generate-thrust-in-historic-aerospace-breakthrough/

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https://www.wionews.com/world/ukraine-claims-it-destroyed-russian-drones-from-distance-of-500-km-a-record-in-long-range-drone-warfare-1776759639898