Edit: Damn, I did not expect so many responses. Thank you, I’ve learned a fair amount about drone strikes in the last few hours.
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Think of the drone as a remote control plane flown by one person with another operating a very powerful laser/camera. Now think of that laser like a flashlight. At the distance the plane operates the laser looks more like a large flashlight beam than a laser beam. The AGM-114 Hellfire missile has a seeker on the front, think of this as an eye.
When the missile is shot the eye on it searches for the flashlight beam and attempts to guide itself to it. This flashlight beam is essentially “flown” onto the target by the camera operator who is well trained at moving the camera/laser. There is a lot more to it than that but that’s the ELI5 version. Hope this helped!
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