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Special Forces Quadcopter launchpad #792

Closed BartGauvin closed 2 years ago

BartGauvin commented 2 years ago

DB Selector

DB3K

Hypothetical

No

Name

Quadcopter Control Site

Facility Type

Inf

Country

Generic

Service

Army

In Commission

2010

Crew

2-3

Dispersion Radius (m)

10

Sensors

Eyeball NVGs

Mounts

Not sure

Magazines

No response

Aircraft & Docking Facilities

1x Pad 1x Open parking 1x runway access Point

Comments

Currently DBID 3157 can be used but it is a truck and therefore is fairly easy to detect. With the ability for a single operator to control a drone from anywhere, an Infantry version of this facility should be available which is much harder to detect

Sources

I'm not suggesting a nano-drone be added but this is an example.

here is a paper on the subject https://irp.fas.org/eprint/howard.htm

Thanks

PygmalionOfCyprus commented 2 years ago

Close with PygmalionOfCyprus/cmo-db-dev#225

PygmalionOfCyprus commented 2 years ago

(I'm aware you can't see issues in the dev GitHub; long story short, we're going to improve the distinction between hand-launched / catapult-launched / conventionally-launched UAVs. Once that's implemented you'll be able to launch small man-portable UAVs like quadcopters, etc. from any platform regardless of the aircraft facilities or lack thereof, so we won't need a dedicated "quadcopter launchpad" to represent some dude putting a quadcopter on the ground.)

BartGauvin commented 2 years ago

OK, excellent thanks