Project Equipment: Drones

[dragoon500ly]

Originally Posted by mmartin798

I like drones and my group had one until recently. Events have transpired and they flew it into an area with some substantial C-RAM capabilities. They keep saying that they have to go get a replacement. They really like the surveillance capabilities.

I have a question for you though. Since you have bigger drones than I have, are you using the Pilot Aircraft skill with them? The drone my group had was smaller and more or less an upgraded DJI with larger payload, battery capacity and sensor suite. Since it takes care of much of the flying itself, I just use Sensor Operation with it.

I can see the larger bases (regional and larger) having 4-6 each of the larger drones, with dedicated pilots and support teams. The Global Hawks would be restricted to the three larger bases (Prime, Omnicron and Sigma) with 6-8 available for continental-scale long range surveillance.

The smaller drones would have 2-3 team personnel trained to fly them, so I can see either the pilot- or sensor operation-skills added.