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Grouse's Counter-Drone Suite
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Mod Type: Weapon
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10 Aug, 2023 @ 3:07pm
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Grouse's Counter-Drone Suite

Description
This mod is geared towards including an extensive and immersive counter-drone suite. Given the pervasive threats of both military and commercial UAVs in the modern battlefield, technological solutions to this threat are needed.

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Currently, this mod includes:
-DroneGun Tactical, in both Rifle and Launcher versions

Future Updates:
-DroneGun mk 4 model as secondary C-UAS gun.
-Static Area Drone Jammer;
-Vehicle Drone Jammer;
-Static Drone Radar;
-Vehicle-borne Drone Radar;
-Modules to turn vehicles/props into jammers or radars.

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Functionality:
DroneGun Tactical provides a variety of effects to enemy drones, depending on one's aim & the hardening of the drone to Electronic Warfare:
These effects are called for depending on how "close" the Electromagnetic Wave shot by the DroneGun Tactical passes by the drone:
-It can completely destroy drones.
-It can force drones to land or return to their operator, disabling them until re-set by their operator.
-It can temporarily force drones to land or stay in place, before continuing with previous waypoints
-If signal is weak, it can damage the connection, resulting in intermittent static feeds for the drone's operator (future update).

-If a disabled drone is recovered, there's a chance of extracting the drone operator's location by examining its recorded videos & data.


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DroneGun Tactical's workings are fully customizable with CBA_Settings!
-One can specify whether a particular class of drones falls within the commercial, military high-end, or military low-end categories. (All drones set to Commercial-category by default).
-One can specify the resistance value of each category by giving it a value of 0-100, with 100 meaning fully invulnerable to EW.
-One can specify the ranges of distances in which different effects are called for by modifying RUF_FriedBeg/End, RUF_DisabledBeg/End, and RUF_FrozenBeg/End values.

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Only drone I've confirmed my gun doesn't affect is RHS's Raven, since it's purely scripted and NOT an "Arma UAV"

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Thanks to:
Farquharson for input on how to model effects & beta feedback
HorribleGoat for extensive help with modelling/configuring
gc8 for allowing me to use one of their functions
Ampersand for introducing me to scripting and putting up with my questions

DroneGun Tactical is the property and trademark of www.droneshield.com

Contents of mod may not be used for commercial purposes, and re-distribution to the workshop is not permitted.
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17 Aug, 2023 @ 6:50pm
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RuffledGrouse
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26 Jul @ 3:17pm
Assets not appearing
Brunoooo
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solusun 14 Aug @ 11:24am 
Great mod :steamthumbsup:

Did some testing with it and it's really cool for drone defense/counter-offense gameplay. I'm just wondering though, does the DroneGun actually disable large attack drones in one shot from a distance like that in real life?
devildogg237 6 Aug @ 2:34am 
honestly? I want everything in this mod. this would be great to have to deal with in missions, or help in antistasi from rivals and the like.
RuffledGrouse  [author] 15 Jul @ 11:25am 
@big Guy,
Yes; I'm trying to finish graduate school in next 2 months, so time available should significantly increase after that.
RuffledGrouse  [author] 15 Jul @ 11:24am 
@beeper,
If the Mavic counts as a UAV for Arma, it should work. Only one I have seen that doesn't is RHS's Raven drone, since it's technically not a UAV, but a scripted object.

@devildogg237, what features would you want?
BIG GUY 26 Jun @ 7:24pm 
you gonna update this
beeper 2 Apr @ 1:53pm 
Is it affects on Mavic?
devildogg237 29 Dec, 2023 @ 10:46am 
still watching this, this would enhance my units ops by ALOT.
BaMxIRE 12 Nov, 2023 @ 11:23am 
Looking forward to the development progressing but life comes first. Still looking forward to it tho.
RuffledGrouse  [author] 29 Oct, 2023 @ 5:31pm 
@ [SMG] Big Guy:
Yes, it is! Slowly fine-tuning scripts for area drone jammers, but real-life's been keeping me busy!
BIG GUY 26 Oct, 2023 @ 6:58pm 
is development still ongoing?