Re: Drones (UAVs)

>johncrim@voicenet.com wrote:

>There's a Ral Partha "Shadowrun" pack that has a pair of 25mm drones. 
One 
>is a small
>tracked thing, like a tiny tank.  The other is a disk-shaped flyer.  I 
>think that it was
>the "Riggers" pack.

It's the "Riggers with drones" pack, and my local gaming store has a
couple 
IIRC.

>I have this little booklet at home -- I'll look for it tonight -- that
is a 
>serious
>proposal to use small tracked RPVs for a variety of miltary
applications.  
>The author
>calls them "demons", if I remember correctly, and suggests at one point

>that they could be
>used as (among other things) tank killers.  *How* they are supposed to
do 
>this escapes me
>at the moment.

In the current Afghan conflict, the US mounted Hellfires on it's UAV's.

Brian B2

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