Stealth Drone

Combat role

American Federation elite air asset — low-observable standoff striker that hits at Range 2 and relocates before the response arrives.

Lore

The American Federation entered the Fracture with the world's deepest institutional memory of air power and the least appetite for spending pilots. The Stealth Drone is the synthesis: a flying-wing airframe the size of a light aircraft, radar volume of a seagull, carrying a standoff strike package and no cockpit to mourn.

Federation doctrine calls the employment cycle "presence without address" — the drone hits a battery, a hull, a headquarters from beyond visual range, and by the time anyone triangulates the launch vector it is in a different sky. Squadrons operate out of dispersed strips and highway sections, refueled by ground crews who know the mission only as a departure heading.

Adversary blocs publish inflated kill claims against the type. The Federation neither corrects nor comments, which is its own message.

When to use

Use its Range 2 and Move 3 to delete high-value targets — artillery, ships, recon — without entering retaliation range, then reposition. Its 6 HP forgives nothing: never leave it parked where fighters can reach it.

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