UAV Operator

Purpose

As a UAV operator, your tasking during any operation is to:

provide fast, accurate, and detailed intel on enemy movements and installations
Update friendly units to possible hazards and opportunities
Occasionally work with other support units (CAS/Mortar/Engineers/Ect) to more effective leverage their abilities on the battlefield
Act as a JTAC if the mission is set up for it to call in necessary support i.e. laser designation for an airstrike or giving reference for missile runs

Equipment

Gear Scripts can slightly vary from missions to mission, but the most common are:

UAV Terminal (Located at the bottom of the equipment screen in the "communications" slot)
Binoculars (Laser Des. can be in place but rarely is it needed with current gear loadouts)
LR Radio (Commonly you will have two AN/PRC-148 or AN/PRC-152)
Darter UAV backback

UAVs

The actual workhorse of the position you are using, the UAV can, depending on the type being used, offer you a valuable and almost unfair advantage to any mission it is active on. The most commonly used UAVs are the:

Air:

Darter/Tayran AR-2: Backpack carried and launched, quad rotor, payload incapable
MQ-12 Falcon: 5-blade rotary helicopter, payload capable
MQ4A Greyhawk / K40 Abalil-3: Single prop, semi-stealth, payload capable
Sentinel: Twin jet powered, wing-body airframe, payload capable

Ground:

UGV Stomper / UGV Saif: 6-wheeled, 12.7mm HMG/40mm GMG armed, single seat

Operation

So you've mistakenly slotted UAV and now need to know what are you even doing with these multi-million crafts. No worries, its simple and easily manageable once you've looked over the screens you will be working with. The first thing you will want to do it use your scroll wheel and select Open UAV Terminal Following you will have a map with a list on the left side appear. You will navigate to the top left, Hit the drop-down, and select the UAV you are wanting to contol