US Navy and marines take 21st century tech to Honduras.

[chrisonord]

Both the Navy and Marine corps desperatly needed a UCAV presence over the heavily defended areas of Cartel occupied Nicaragua. As these aircraft could stay up for many hours longer than manned aircraft, covering more ground. The Marines took delivery of a purpose built turbo fan powered UCAV, which at present is being used for recon and observation missions. This aircraft is a very quiet and fast moving when neccesary, but has yet to be cleared for the use of offensive ordnance, but has the ability to do so by simply adding pylons and some software. The Navy has taken delivery of a slightly modified version used by the US airforce and the RAF, the MQ-1B Predator, known in Navy guise as the predator N+. The Navy UCAV differed in that it had a more powerfull engine, 3 blade prop and the ability to fire AGM-45x Shrike 2 missiles, these missiles were continually developed and perfected for use on small aircraft, helicopters and imparticularly UCAV's.






Cheers,
Chris. 

[RussC]

Wild Weasel - the taking down of SAM sites is a good task for drones, to be sure. Great builds on both. 

[NARSES2]

There's someting about the clean lines of "drones" that strikes a chord with me. Nice build Chris