Wasp XRT-39B/G
Overview and History
Vehicle Specifications   General Stats
Name: Wasp XRT-39B/G   Threat Value: 35
Vehicle Type: Drone   Offensive Value: 53
Production Type: Mass Produced   Defensive Value: 35
Cost: 26,250.00 marks   Miscellaneous Value: 16
Manufacturer: Applefish   Size: 2
Use: Recon   Original Default Size: 3
Height: 1.1 meters   Indv. Lemon Dice: 3
Length: 0.4 meters   Crew: 1
Width: 1.4 meters   Bonus Actions: 0
Avg. Armor Thickness: 15mm
Armor Material: Durasheet   Armor
Standard Op. Weight: 110 kg   Light Damage: 4
Primary Move Mode: Flight (105 kph)   Heavy Damage: 8
Secondary Move Mode: ( kph)   Overkill: 12
Deployment Range: 100 km
Sensor Range: 2 km   Vehicle Availability
Communication Range: 10 km   Availability Threshhold: 0
Powerplant: Gas Turbine   Max Number on Field: 12
Engine Output: 75hp  
    Movement
Electronics   Primary Move Mode: Flight
Sensors: +1   Combat Speed: 2
Communications: +1   Top Speed: 4
Fire Control: 0   Secondary Move Mode:
    Combat Speed:
    Top Speed:
    Maneuver: 0
Weapons
Quantity Name Code Arc ACC Damage Range ROF Ammo Special
 1
  Anti-Personnel Grenade Launcher
 APGL
 T
 -1
 x3
 1/2/4/8
 
 6
  AE0, AI, IF
Perks
Name Rating Game Effects AUX
 Automation
 2
  Acts as 2 crew
 
 Autopilot
 
  Acts as Level 1 Pilot
 AUX
 HEP: Desert
 
  -
 
 NOE Flyer
 
  Allows aircraft to fly at very low altitude levels
 
 Target Designator
 1
  Designates targets for guided weapons
 AUX
Flaws
Name Rating Game Effects
 Can Not Glide
 
  Can not gain lift without thrust
 Exposed Movement System
 
  "Movement" hits are one step worse
 Maximum Ceiling
 10
  Can not climb past a specified altitude.
 Sensor Dependent
 
  Must rely on sensors in combat
Defects
Name Rating Game Effects
Variants
There are no variants.
Designer Notes
The Wasp is the standard Northern hunter-recon drone. Developed by the Applefish design bureau, the Wasp now serves as a potent alternative to forward observers for Northern artillery units. Using twin counter-rotating rotars, the Wasp is capable of quick and agile VTOL flight. The high-pitched buzzing of its rotors is the only warning enemy troops usually have when one of these nasty drones pops up from behind cover to tag them with a laser designator or cut them down with a machine gun burst.

Wasps are usually operated through radio guidance by a single console equipped with a joystick, flight control, and three holoscreens. A very small number of drones have been modified to use wire guidance. The ease with which the wire may become snared, however, usually elminates all the advantages of a flying drone.

Some commanders complain that the Wasp requires too many unique spare parts and too much maintenance time for a job better handled by skilled infantry units, but the relatively small number of recon forces in most Northern armies usually quells these criticisms.