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BDA-3 Autonomous Nuclear Powered Missile Carrier

It is important to read these warnings before using the drone. Not following these instructions can cause errors, destruction of the drone and even nuclear contamination. Warnings marked as critical are the ones, that cause the most damage when not followed.

• (CRITICAL) Land the aircraft before exiting your game. As the navigation is Lua based, the data will reset every time the game is loaded. This makes the aircraft think, that it should still be in the hangar. [PARTIALLY FIXED. NOW THE FRONT LANDING GEAR HAS A "DIRECT TAKEOFF" BUTTON. WITH THIS, THE DRONE CAN TAKE OFF DIRECTLY FROM THE RUNWAY, OR EVEN HANGAR.]
  
• (CRITICAL) Do not fire the missiles, when the aircraft is changing altitude above 2km. During this time, the aircraft can point nearly directly upwards, which causes issues with the internal missiles. If this is done, the missile can detonate inside the bay, which most likely leads to a crash, and nuclear radiation spilling into the environment.
  
• (CRITICAL) Do not fire two missiles with less than a second in between. This can cause issues with the weapons bay doors, which makes the missile detonate inside the aircraft, making similar results to the previous warning.
  
• (CRITICAL) Do not command the drone to land, when taxiing or rearming is in progress. This will mess with the automatic waypoint system, and the drone will most likely drive slowly off the runway, resulting in the drone crashing.
  
• Do not fire the missiles below 1km altitude, as they can hit the ground before ascending.
  
• When a rearming/landing command is given, the missiles still inside the drone will be dropped with warheads unarmed. This is done to reduce weight for the landing, and dropping the missiles can cause damage, if they hit something.
  
• Only send one UC-5 at a time for rearming, as they will collide. This will probably be fixed later.

These other units will communicate directly with BDA-3. Others may be still needed for proper function.

• UC-5 Autonomous Rearm Vehicle: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3304018553
  
• VC-10 Drone Control Terminal: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3304017964
  
• SOT-11 Strike Calling and Targeting Terminal: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3304016378
  
• SGUM-7A (GPS Precision Missile)

Note, that this is a testbed for systems, that will be used on other vehicles in the future. Because of this, the aircraft isn’t prefect, and it can have issues.

Introducing Meteor Combat Systems’ new nuclear powered autonomous strategic missile carrier. This aircraft is able to takeoff, land, rearm, etc. with minimal user input. The user only needs to click a button, and the drone does the rest. Multiple users can call missile strikes almost anywhere by simply having a terminal with targeting system (SOT-11). The missiles carried by the drone (SGUM-7A) can hit a target 20km away with 0.5m accuracy. Because of the missile’s high speed, cruise altitude and impact angle, the missile is very hard to detect and intercept reliably by the enemies. As the aircraft is nuclear powered and rearmable, it can theoretically operate with no repairs infinitely.

• Fully automatic takeoff and landing on command.
  
• Can be autonomously rearmed on runway by UC-5, in under two minutes.
  
• Missiles strikes can be called at any time by multiple users.
  
• Nuclear powered with radiation detectors.
  
• Can be operated from any airfield with similar layout to Harrison airbase, no matter the orientation. Bases such as the creative base will cause the drone to crash or fall into water.
  
• "Direct Takeoff" for continuing the flight from the runway without reloading.

• 6m long compact design.
  
• Very heavy at around 1.75 tons.
  
• 20km guaranteed range, no testing was done further than that.
  
• Hard to intercept trajectory.
  
• Highly precise GPS targeting, which can be updated mid flight.

DB-9 is a system, which allows multiple users to both control drones, and call in missile strikes. This system at the moment consists of BDA-3 (Autonomous Strategic Missile Platform), VC-10 (Drone Control Terminal), SOT-11 (Strike Calling and Targeting Terminal), UC-5 (Autonomous Rearm Vehicle) and SGUM-7A (GPS Precision Missile).

State labels (STAT or STT):


See the attached video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5lQFMRq5Ao

• Mid air rearming. (Likely not to happen soon)
  
• Data encryption. Right now, the radio data can be seen by everyone, who has a control terminal and knows the frequency.

• In situations described in the warnings section, a missile may explode in the weapons bay. At the moment, this is somewhat rare to happen, so this shouldn’t cause issues, if the drone is used correctly.
  
• The landing sequence takes a very long route, which is necessary for good alignment. This might get fixed in the future.
  
• The landing is generally very rough, and there’s a chance of the front landing gear collapsing for a while. This though is still completely safe.