Highsky,
I like your creativity but I agree with you that it'll be a LONG time before drones can do air-air. It's such a dynamic environment that requires a thousand decisions a second (feels like at least!), and that's hard enough to do when you are sitting IN the seat surrounded by the info. I can't imagine trying to do that while looking through a soda straw a la' the current drones. The omni-directional idea is a nice thought though.
As far as the Lazy-Susan missile round-about goes, it would be nice. Unfortunately there's so much more to making that missile work that a stationary platform just couldn't perform. B-52 guys advocated for a long time that we should put 100 AMRAAM's on them and they could be "missile trucks". haha. For our current missiles that we have fielded to destroy its target there's about 7 million consecutive miracles that have to work in order. a BIG piece of that is giving it enough energy when it comes off the rail for it to make updates/corrections in mid flight and still make it to the target over Mach 1.0 so it has enough energy end game to finish the intercept. If you had that lazy susan drone (that i picture not very fast due to aerodynamics), you could in theory shoot some missiles off of it but the probability of kill would be extremely low for its missiles. that's provided it didn't get shot down first though. creative thought though!
i find myself thinking about this kind of stuff all the time and i usually come to the conclusion that if my small brain can come up with it then it's probably old news at DARPA!

Highsky - i tried to PM you back but it wouldn't go through because it said you don't accept PM's.