Featuring as an element in the current 'phoney war' between Russia and the West (or rest) of Europe currently is an appearance of drones nearest points of interest or vulnerability to people who are minded to attack them. In practical terms it means the appearance of drones under cover of darkness, likely launched by proxies at sea ~ which is where we could use more in the way of surveillance ~ or from onshore.
These would be merely the canapés that precede the use of drones like that above with a range of 1,000 kilometres and ~ launched in sufficient number ~ no practical or economic means of stopping many of them from arriving at the intended target.
Accordingly we've come full circle: delta-wings and flying bombs each a relic of the last world war. The former would feature in the UK's principle nuclear deterrent for much of the Cold War in the shape of the V-bomber (most especially the Vulcan) while the latter in the shape of the V1 was a lowest-cost means of bombing London and inspiring fear in its residents.
But what are the pods at the tip of each wing? The pic is an extract from the BBC, whose interns will be (a) technically illiterate and (b) too busy warping speeches to suit an agenda... so little by way of enlightenment is available from the illustration.
My guess though is that (given the omission of undercarriage ~ who needs it on a flying bomb?) they are JATO bottles. These, as it says on the tin, are a jet-assisted means of achieving flying speed; although the V1 itself was already a jet, albeit a pulse-jet, able to launch from ramps unaided.
This newest Vulcan bomber tho' is undoubtedly powered by a super-cheap 'boxer' motor which China is happy to supply in numbers ~ as with the inflatables powering an invasion by sea which we are equally powerless to stop.
It's called asymmetric warfare, and they're better at it than we are... so get used to it.
