Skywatch Drones

These small aerostat drones are one-third of a meter in length, with a range of up to ten kilometers. They can loiter above a site for up to eight hours before losing power, and can be recharged with an hour in the mech’s rack. The drones have standard and infrared telescopic video sensors and can hover at altitudes of up to one thousand meters. While difficult to spot with the naked eye, skywatch drones are very easy for modern anti-air defenses to locate, and rarely last more than ten or twenty seconds over a military target before being brought down. Any damage will bring down a drone, but hitting one at maximum altitude with a hand weapon requires a hit on armor class 25.