Yes... we have tow... we have haul... but do we have anything that will do the work for us? enter the offensive drone.
just like our known microdrones, the revolutionary new mining function -- using lasers and ablation to move ore around -- the new Mining Drone function uses lasers, micro-explosions, and fleshette darts to efficiently break apart ore... or other things... as needed.
integration into the fabrication plant would be an easy tie-in, and the military drone hold (or above) seem like a reasonable requirement to be able to produce- and-store an offensive type drone subsystem
TS