#Aircraft Deployable Surveillance UAV or AWACS

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rocky oxide
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a small little surveillance drone type thing that can be deployed by other aircraft like the compass or maybe the upcoming vtol and/or AWACS for constant awareness

outer basalt
rocky oxide
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dude

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i dont simply mean a drone that takes off from a place

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one that is deployed by a different aircraft

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and stays in a certain area

outer basalt
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why?

rocky oxide
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for variety

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and also

outer basalt
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the radar can already see the entire map

rocky oxide
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its a suggestion

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its an idea

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it can?

quasi karma
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id like to see a loyal wingman style drone

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just a missile truck

outer basalt
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rocky oxide
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oh so radars can just constanly look at what the enemy is doing in an area that is behind something?

bronze harness
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Yo incur, bugger off and let this dude have his suggestion

rocky oxide
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yeah

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honest buzzkill

quasi karma
outer basalt
quasi karma
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makes sense

bronze harness
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Take it there

plucky raven
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i think a sort of flying carrier that carries loyal wingman type drones inside could be useful

rocky oxide
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yeah

plucky raven
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could send them off in front of convoys to clear enemy helis or make them fly over the ocean as a sort of darkreach deterrent / cruise missile umbrella

rocky oxide
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oh

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the war thunder incident

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tiny drone that cant be seen ramming helis :)

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mmyes

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or launch like a small missile

bronze harness
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Mnghhh yes

outer basalt
plucky raven
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give them IR missiles but no radar ones so that fighters can clear them out readily but very good agility. would function like a super cricket and would synergize greatly with medusa for shutting down heavily defended SAM sites / airbases

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low altitude dominance

outer basalt
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Since right now it's RNG dependent

bronze harness
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Shhhh

plucky raven
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if they could carry radar missiles they would be able to carry ir missiles anyway

bronze harness
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Think about the future

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Not rn

outer basalt
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I mean an arsenal bird would be glorious

bronze harness
plucky raven
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for a2g let them carry the hellfires on the ir missile racks instead

bronze harness
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Could easily fake it down

outer basalt
rocky oxide
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well you see this drone is meant to be pretty small

bronze harness
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Yeah, cool doesn't matter though

rocky oxide
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but i guess there could be another variant thats bigger with two hellfire things

bronze harness
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This isn't ace combat

outer basalt
rocky oxide
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dear god

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rocky oxide
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you genius

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well yeah

plucky raven
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darkreach is already planned to have drones in the bays

rocky oxide
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oh really?

outer basalt
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Drone suicide bomb

bronze harness
rocky oxide
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neat

bronze harness
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Yeah, sounds like a fun idea

rocky oxide
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ye

bronze harness
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Oi kia

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Lemmi choke you

marsh portal
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Everyone wants cool stuff until they have to go against it just saying

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marsh portal
rocky oxide
bronze harness
rocky oxide
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but this isnt going to be something that is like meta

marsh portal
rocky oxide
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just something small

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if anything it would just be annoying

bronze harness
outer basalt
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Like the survey drones in war thunder

marsh portal
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Lol like CM's

outer basalt
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But with bombs inside

plucky raven
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lol droppable single shot IR SAM sites

rocky oxide
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maybe not bombs

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but maybe

outer basalt
rocky oxide
bronze harness
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A drone with an s1

balmy bolt
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recursive aircraft when

rocky oxide
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recursive?

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oh also maybe small drone parasite fighters for darkreach just for the funsies :)

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not sure how it would work but yes

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maybe just be AI controlled once deployed

outer basalt
rocky oxide
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just an idea mate

bronze harness
rocky oxide
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could be a mod or official

bronze harness
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Reduces the payload a bunch

plucky raven
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is the game even moddable

outer basalt
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It's thing is that it can't defend itself

rocky oxide
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it will be

bronze harness
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Limited weapons

outer basalt
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Eh fair euff

marsh portal
rocky oxide
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and the fighter will either only have 2 IR missiles and a gun or just a gun

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that is up for debate

outer basalt
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Just a gun would be fun

rocky oxide
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yeah but would it be practical?

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idk

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idk why im thinkin that

bronze harness
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A gun and a single Ir missile

balmy bolt
rocky oxide
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mike sparks?

rocky oxide
outer basalt
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With a small form factor like that you're going to have 2 irm s1s at best

bronze harness
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S3

plucky raven
rocky oxide
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yeah i was thinking the S3s

outer basalt
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It would have to fit on the darkreach bays?

bronze harness
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1x S3 1x 20mm cannon with 380 rounds of he

rocky oxide
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well it could also be for whatever other bomber or cargo jet we get in the future

plucky raven
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuji_TACOM

Fuji TACOM

The Fuji TACOM (TAyouto COgata Mujinki in Japanese, translates to "multi-role small UAV") is an air-launched unmanned aerial vehicle developed by Fuji Heavy Industries (now renamed as Subaru Corporation). In 1995, the TACOM UAV was conceived as a platform to test and evaluate the technologies needed for an air-launched UAV for the Japan Air Self...

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rocky oxide
rocky oxide
balmy bolt
# rocky oxide mike sparks?

he's this insane guy or something who was like "we need to make military planes cheaper" and his idea of making a plane cheaper was taking off the radar, the avionics, the C3 capabilities, basically everything except for the bare minimum amount of fuel needed to get into a dogfight, and it would have nothing except for a gun

rocky oxide
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ah

outer basalt
balmy bolt
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basically this guy just wanted the us air force to make ww2 turnfighters in the 90s

rocky oxide
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i remember

outer basalt
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But what about the engines avionics and control

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Fuel storage

rocky oxide
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for the drone?

bronze harness
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It's a single use fighter

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It's disposable

rocky oxide
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with maybe the ability to land at airfields if possible

outer basalt
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Wouldn't be very useful it's it's fuel time is less than 2 minutes

rocky oxide
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or go back to the darkreach somehow

bronze harness
rocky oxide
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im thinking like a 8 or 10 minute fuel set

rocky oxide
bronze harness
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15 minutes of fuel

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No afterburner

rocky oxide
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which also sparks the idea of a dedicated drone carrier aircraft

rocky oxide
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outer basalt
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Avengers helicarrier

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But drones

rocky oxide
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maybe

bronze harness
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Hell no

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To big

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Would fall apart

plucky raven
rocky oxide
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or something like what that messier 82 guy made in flyout

rocky oxide
balmy bolt
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i've got an idea for how to potentially balance this

rocky oxide
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shoot

bronze harness
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Just a sec, ima make a suggestion for that rq

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Because I have a 4 fighter idea

rocky oxide
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well shockfront will certainly have plenty of ideas for updates

balmy bolt
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so people just using these as a get out of jail free card in engagements would be a problem, say you've fired a missile at someone and they deploy the parasite fighters before they die, turning one threat into two

here's my idea: if you're gonna have these parasite fighters, they should take a long time to actually deploy out of the darkreach and become usable so that you can't just spam them if you get shot at, you actually need to think ahead if you intend to use them

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i'm aware that's not very realistic having the parasite fighters take ages to get into a combat ready state, but it'd atleast prevent people from spamming them before dying

rocky oxide
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id say having like a 5 second delay of some kind could work

balmy bolt
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i was thinking more along the lines of 10

outer basalt
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ADF-11 D 7th generation drone fighter

rocky oxide
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10 works

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also no nothing of that caliber

plucky raven
rocky oxide
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true

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honestly they may not be much more a threat than an AI cricket

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aside from the turboprop or jet propulsion

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and also better turn rate possibly

balmy bolt
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it's not really the threat i'm worried about, it's the fact that you'd be forcing someone to use at least two more missiles than they would have needed to normally

rocky oxide
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or guns

plucky raven
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if you get within ir missile range of the darkreach in front of them and they launch drones before you fire missiles kind of a skill issue the tradeoff is that the darkreach carries a lot less munitions

balmy bolt
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and that problem gets even worse if the drones can dodge/use countermeasures

rocky oxide
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im thinking the drone would have at most 12 flares

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i mean it can try to dodge

plucky raven
rocky oxide
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wdym

plucky raven
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the bomber can just spam the cruise missiles when it gets a missile alert

balmy bolt
rocky oxide
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yeah

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also maybe make the drones less effective or work for only about 30 seconds more after the darkreach goes down

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possibly

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but idk about that

balmy bolt
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my main idea with how these would be balanced is as offensive weapons

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if you get them deployed without getting shot at in that time, you'd have an effective force multiplier that wouldn't feel like a giant middle finger to the people going up against you

rocky oxide
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yeah

balmy bolt
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once the drones are out, they'd work fine and be (reasonably) effective for the size

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the deployment time is to prevent people from using them to screw over anyone who's fired at the parent darkreach

rocky oxide
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yeah