Drone warfare 2.0: Unmanned vehicles outfitted with long-range missiles deliver deep strikes

Turkey's Baykar Kızılelma unmanned aircraft fired a ballistic missile striking a target at 120 km, with small size and stealthy shaping making it radar-difficult.

Russia integrated the S-8000 Banderol air-launched cruise missile onto its Orion drone, enabling strikes beyond 500 km from a small drone comparable to the MQ-1 Reaper.

India's Ghatak stealth drone programme, led by DRDO, is developing an unmanned combat aerial vehicle with a flying-wing layout and Kaveri engine for precision strikes in contested airspace.

The US used three Corsair unmanned surface vessels offensively to strike Iran's Bandar Abbas port, targeting naval ship and submarine repair facilities.

Ukraine staged a complex autonomous operation using an unmanned watercraft to deliver an unmanned ground vehicle with a machine gun, guided by an aerial drone, to attack Russian positions.