The night time hunt using IR is widely practiced today in Ukraine and even was widely practiced by US and USSR in Afghanistan and Iraq as surroundings gets cooled down and cars, people and say donkeys used to transport weapons in mountains become highly contrast against the surroundings and thus easy to spot visually and to lock IR seeker of a weapon. Saddam used USSR anti-ship missiles, old even then, to attack Iran oil storage tanks at night as the missiles were easily able to lock on that large bright IR emission of the tanks still hot from the day against the cold night desert.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/ukraines-one-time-test-us...
the drones are used in groups. That is for example how we have a lot of footage of the drones hitting target. The drone observers or the intelligence drone guiding the group would frequently carry much better camera than the actual kamikaze drones. In the fully autonomous AI mode the drone is usually given small target area where to operate and regular 4K camera is sufficient there.
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