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Drone Carrier

Adding more detail; now that the basic design for the plane is fairly solid, I want to spend some time developing the surrounding scene and background.


Toying with the idea that part of the munitions carried is a drone/cruise missile that can be launched to provide remote targeting, recon and decoy duties.

Drone Carrier

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I usually associate missiles with rockets. These would be small drones (little helicopters) capable of shooting and/or self destroying. A self-destroying drone would be hard to recover, as john pointed out. And could latch itself to its target before detonating. And now that i think about it it's scaringly possible to build such a thing nowadays. So i probably should stop fantasying about it or become paranoid. đŸ˜«đŸ€ŁđŸ€Ł

Simone Spinozzi

Could form into small missiles basically

Alex

Problem is, seems expensive: could it be re-captured before leaving the theatre, or fly home? or just be left

Alex

Or... It could be a "very dangerous array" basically a swarm of drones to cover an area. Basically the aircraft at that point would be used to get the drones quickly in position so that they can auto-scan/auto-map an area. And then if it is a military operation those drones have a relatively small gun which can still be deadly at close range (nobody ever looks up or outside the window) or the self destruction mechanism to "surgically pulverize" a target. (A door or an impediment usually. For people guns are more than enough, unless you absolutely want them "deleted and unrecognizable")

Simone Spinozzi

That makes sense. It would have to be semi-autonomous, so the pilot only has to designate where he wants it to go, and not have to control it to get it there.

John


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