TL9 drones

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by jason taylor

It is for transporting a whole battery including the drones and their work stations in several helicopters and moving them to other places

At this point I'm not sure why you're calling it a 'mothership'.

Or why you're not just using trucks.

Originally Posted by jason taylor

and I find it hard to believe that it is not possible to communicate twelve miles.

What are you reacting to here? This seems to follow from nothing.

Originally Posted by jason taylor

Expendable maritime vessels can control long range drones not to mention surface unmanned boats. They can extend the range beyond that of shore stations, and might be of advantage when orbital platforms are not available or are in hostile hands. And losing them certainly hurts less than losing the Russian navy.

Maritime vessels are, as a rule, not really expendable.

I don't know what mission you're trying to enable with this. I do know that if you deploy your drone control vessel off an enemy shoreline where you can't deploy full naval forces, you're going to lose it pretty quickly.

If you want to lay mines, you could just lay mines instead of deploying a bunch of units that require you keep an exposed control nexus supporting them.