SPS BlackHornet PRS
"The FLIR Black Hornet PRS equips the non-specialist dismounted soldier with immediate covert situational awareness (SA). Game-changing EO and IR technology bridges the gap between aerial and ground-based sensors, with the same SA as a larger UAV and threat location capabilities of UGVs. Extremely light, nearly silent, and with a flight time up to 25 minutes, the combat-proven, pocket-sized Black Hornet PRS transmits live video back to the operator"
V 0.0.4
– Decreased control sensitivity and adjust lift and collective values slightly – should make flying slightly easier.
– Reduced drag slightly – should make it slightly easier to fly on windy days with ACE3 but without changing too far beyond realistic limit.
– Fixed bug of drone launch damaging the player if they have their weapon raised by releasing the drone slightly further from the player.
– Added ACE3 interactions to launch and pick up if running ACE3.
– Added CBA settings to enable or disable BOTH the vanilla scroll wheel actions AND the ACE3 interactions. (Obviously don’t disable BOTH otherwise you won’t be able to launch it!)
V 0.0.2
– Increase sound levels slightly
– Tweaked dust effects significantly
– Improve launching from buildings. (Note the hover height after launch when launching from buildings is much higher.)
Do not launch inside buildings!
V 0.0.1
This mod is the first beta release of the SPS Black Hornet Personal Reconnaissance System.
The Black Hornet is a miniature UAV measuring under 200mm in length.
Such tiny objects are extremely difficult to get to fly well in ARMA. This version is extremely hard to fly with keyboard only, but ‘O.K.’ when using mouse/joystick.
Note that as it is so tiny and light, flying this drone in stronger winds when running ACE3 is even more challenging. You can experience winds that are stronger than the top speed of the drone. In these circumstances, the drone will never be able to make headway into the wind. So always check wind strengths before launching when using ACE3!
Many parts of this mod will change over time – consider this just the very first step of this project. It is also the first vehicle I’ve completed in ARMA 3 so there are still many things I know are not included or implemented properly. Again, I will look to rectify these over time.
I’ve currently set the drone to have a laser pointed (NOT designator) on the lower camera (turret) to allow ground stabilisation of this camera. I don’t believe this to be accurate of the real Black Hornet so this feature may get removed at some time in the future.
