Switchblade Drones

[SCUBA Hero]

Saw some articles indicating that the US is supplying Switchblade kamikaze drones to Ukraine:

 

AeroVironment Switchblade - Wikipedia

 

The 300 has a warhead equivalent to a 40mm grenade.  The 600 has an anti-tank warhead comparable to a Javelin ATGM.

 

So throw those values in, write up a vehicle with the stated speed/range characteristics and guidance systems, maybe up the DCV to represent how difficult it is to intercept, and you've got a HERO System writeup! 😃

[archer]

That's a pretty neat technology. But I'd be hesitant to introduce airbursting 40mm grenades guided from 6 kilometers away to make sure they ignore cover.  

[Grailknight]

I wouldn't use a vehicle for a suicide drone.  I'd make it an attack with extended range and indirect and appropriate Limitations.

 

[SCUBA Hero]

That works too.  But it's definitely not a half-Phase attack, at least at longer ranges (98/115mph = 44/51 meters per Segment), it's remotely controlled, and there's a physical structure that can be damaged or destroyed.  Once you add Limitations to reflect those things, IMO it's easier to do a vehicle write-up.  But that's just my preference.

[Scott Ruggels]

In the least it’s a focus. 

[Grailknight]

22 hours ago, SCUBA Hero said:

That works too.  But it's definitely not a half-Phase attack, at least at longer ranges (98/115mph = 44/51 meters per Segment), it's remotely controlled, and there's a physical structure that can be damaged or destroyed.  Once you add Limitations to reflect those things, IMO it's easier to do a vehicle write-up.  But that's just my preference.

 

Vehicles are something you expect to use multiple times though. These are just attacks .

[Sundog]

On 3/20/2022 at 3:40 AM, Grailknight said:

 

Vehicles are something you expect to use multiple times though. These are just attacks .

I've written up missiles for Star Hero, as well as Autonomous Kill Vehicles. They're both single use.

[SCUBA Hero]

An article about the Switchblade drone, with some pics:

 

The 'kamikaze drone' the US is sending Ukraine is a 'pretty powerful' tool for troops, top Marine general says (msn.com)

 

A swarm of those things would be a holy terror for infantry and armor.

[steriaca]

I shutter thinking about the VIPER equivalent weapon systems.

 

My version of SAT, in my mind, had some drone expert agents using drones as indirect fire weapons (if I would put them to paper, they would be RKA, Indirect, Physical Incarnations along with Clairvoyance abilities).