BlackAce Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 (edited) I was wondering about adding an airborne weapons platfrom which is capable of providing light scout&fire support from above and can be stowed in a transporter like a tank. So, what do you think guys? if a "tank" can be loaded up to a light aircraft then why we cant load a small UAV (Unmanned Air Vehicle) for fast scouting. And why we dont use all available technology we have, today there are UAVs smaller than computer monitors. If X-Com is going to deploy latest and the best tech. mankind has, then UAVs should be used... Tactically, it will be lighter but faster than a HWP, it will have better perception and better accuracy than a tank. This kind of equipment can fill the gap till player have hover tanks. And once hover tanks are developed, both old tank chasis and UAV will be obsolete, however a UAV will be always faster than a tank, so a "Laser UAV" could be a usefull equipment. Anyways if you're still with me here are the techical datas; -X- I created a concept similar to Predator series UAV, but this one seems far more advanced. (similar to one in T3) -X- Weapons of this UAV can be missiles (on wings) or cannons (on chin-turret) or it can carry both weapon types together, UAV in the picture is carrying a 7.62mm cannon, Missiles could be 6x35mm FFARs* (used on Mi17 Hip Heli.s) or 2xHellfires with a cannon hot stuff -X- Size of this thing is equal to HWP, -I shrinked it a little(!)- it was as big as twice, I modified wings to foldable style, even in that size it was requiring 2xHWP room so I shrinked it to its new size... my concern was weapons, but I think armament above is more than enough. *Fin Folded Aerial Rockets for additional pictures, schemes,http://www.geocities.com/blackacelead/01_Airborne.jpghttp://www.geocities.com/blackacelead/02_Airborne.jpghttp://www.geocities.com/blackacelead/03_scheme.jpghttp://www.geocities.com/blackacelead/04_scheme.jpghttp://www.geocities.com/blackacelead/05_F...de_Missiles.jpghttp://www.geocities.com/blackacelead/Folded.jpg Note: Redboxes are indicating spaces required by a UAV/HWP and a soldier, by the way, I will add some rotors in to engines soon... Edited October 27, 2003 by BlackAce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j'ordos Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 Good idea! Though basically it's the same as with multiple types of available interceptors, it probably won't be for version 1 (I wouldn't want to be in the same Skyranger as that thing when it's taking off though ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackAce Posted October 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 V1 is going to be lighter than my UAV I guess by the way UAV's engines are similar to a helicopter's, its rotors will spin a little faster... so it wont burn away everything in 1m radius which means you can stay close to it and watch as it take offs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl. Facehugger Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 Yup, a UAV would be really cool. Just like the idea of a bipedal hwp... :Sigh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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