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 and UAV's built in Des.)
• LR Radio (Commonly you will have two AN/PRC-148 or AN/PRC-152)
• Darter UAV backback (Mission dependent but almost always provided)

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

Once selected, the left panel will update with all information available about the UAV you are in control of. You can only have 1 UAV selected at a time.

You can now select one of the panels on the right side to manually control the drones movement or camera.

(For the following, "Autonomous" must be selected for inputs to work.)

Alternatively you can Shift + Left Click to set a nav point for the drone to do by itself. Be aware that drones can be sometimes be crazy and will need to be monitored if you set them to do their own pathing.

CTRL + Left Click will set additional waypoints

Right clicking on a waypoint will give you a set of options

• Type
  • The type of moment you drone will seek to follow. The most commonly used will be Move, Hold, Loiter. If loiter is selected, a dropbox will appear asking at what diameter the drone is to circle.
• Behavior
  • Gives the drone its ROE. Important: In almost all cases you will need to set the drone to "Never fire" if you have ordinance on it. They like to get aggressive sometimes.
• Altitude
  • Self explanatory. How high it flies.