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The Arsenal Bird Except It's on Severe Budget Cuts

25.2k JohnnyBoythePilot  5.5 years ago

Here's the latest thing I've been working on with SP:

This is that AI-guided laser drone concept some of you may have heard me ramble about before. You can launch them in swarms, and you can redirect them to new targets after they destroy the previous one.



The mothership/carrier aircraft is a VR-1 Sling, which is based off of Texasfam04's GS-1 Global Strike.


The drones are called BQM-165 "Midge", named after those tiny flies that bite you like a mosqoito, sometimes fly in swarms, and are INCREDIBLY ANNOYING!






Enjoy the rest of the teaser images.











Expect a teaser/demo/showcase video on Tuesday.

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    @TheHaggisBasher
    Thanks for reminding me. XD I pick up SP and I started going crazy on a new plane and forget about this one. I'll try to upload this tomorrow after I'm done with work for the day.

    +1 3.0 years ago
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    @JohnnyBoythePilot sooooooooooooo bout the plne

    +1 3.0 years ago
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    @ledownloader123 @IMULAerospaceIndustries @LEDOverCharge gents I've done it all we have tae dae now is wait however long it takes XD

    3.1 years ago
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    @TheHaggisBasher
    Sorry for the incredibly long wait, I basically retired from SP a little over a year ago, and only recently really came back and started building something with the new cockpit update. I'm not doing anything with this plane anymore so sure I'll upload it.

    +1 3.1 years ago
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    @JohnnyBoythePilot could you just post it then so we can tinker with it I've been looking at this craft since the first month of it being released and I've made alot of plans for it

    3.1 years ago
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    This is probably the only “arsenal bird” that actually has drones that you can actually deploy; I mean, plz get a better computer if you can and upload it because I CANT STAND NOT HAVING SOMETHING THIS GOOD BEING UNAVAILABLE AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

    3.9 years ago
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    That’s unfortunate, have you ever considered playing on mobile? My phone is able to handle a surprisingly large amount of parts and drag points on high physics. I hope you’re able to figure out your pc! @JohnnyBoythePilot

    +1 4.0 years ago
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    @YamaYamatheMountain
    No unfortunately, and I'm currently semi-inactive with SP. What time I can usually spend with SP nowadays, I'm tinkering more with general aviation designs instead of defense-related builds such as fighters, weapons, or bombers. My PC has also taken a turn for the worse lately and isn't as fast as it used to be. So now its an uber cabbage where I can barely run FSX and SP at their lowest settings. Thus, I can no longer run high-part-count builds and because of that I've pretty much dropped any complicated builds I was doing before that were high in parts.

    +1 4.0 years ago
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    Did you ever finish it?

    4.0 years ago
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    “Severe budget cuts”
    I’m literally on the ground wheezing! It’s kinda inaccurate because that thing is cool as h*ck but it’s oddly fitting as well...

    +1 4.3 years ago
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    @JohnnyBoythePilot ooh ok then take your time your builds are amazing btw and even just by looking at this this looks like a good project but get to other more important things first ya know, well thanks for replying to my question

    +1 4.9 years ago
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    @LEDOverCharge
    Currently busy with other priorities, but whenever I do get to working on Rainier Aerospace projects, its usually other stuff like my Grizzly MPAT-V truck (currently making a container variant) and one of my other drones that's been long in development and way overdue for finishing & release. The BQM-165 Midge (the drone seen in this post) is on the back-burner for now, and the "technology" behind it still has some bugs that need to be ironed out.

    4.9 years ago
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    Question has this come out and if not when will it come out, this is a really cool post and I really want to try it out

    4.9 years ago
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    15.3k Texasfam04

    Awesome! Love the changes you made! @JohnnyBoythePilot

    +3 5.4 years ago
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    @denialofservice
    Also this drone will come in several variants, including this AI-guided one, and 2 different user/player-controlled versions (laser and recon camera variants). The player-controlled laser drone will have a laser that look like a real laser, but the AI-guided laser drones have that weird-looking laser because with my normal laser, they can't hit their targets without running unto them and exploding.

    5.5 years ago
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    @denialofservice
    That's the plan. The BQM-165 Midge will be uploaded by itself; the mothership aircraft you see is just being used as a test-bed.

    5.5 years ago
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    Alone please

    5.5 years ago
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    Upload the drones

    5.5 years ago
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    6,965 Falconhawk

    First we had the Arsenal bird.

    Now we have the Ammunition Avian

    +3 5.5 years ago
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    @Texasfam04
    Something I'm working on that involves one of your builds (The GS-1 in the form of the VR-1)

    5.5 years ago