Laser-guided rockets as an anti-drone expedient

Rocket pods offer a way to adapt weapons already held for aircraft such as Apache to the Typhoon's anti-drone role. Existing stocks and relatively inexpensive rockets explain the immediate attraction. The exchange questions how well laser guidance would work against very small, manoeuvrable targets and asks about proximity fuzes. A reply assumes such fuzes may already be included, but does not establish that they are. The discussion also distinguishes this adaptation from a fundamentally new weapon and argues that guided rockets for ground attack should have appeared earlier.