Basic Trope: Remote-controlled/automated mobile weapons platform.
- Straight: The Wikistani Aircraft CMR-413 "Queen" carries around and often deploys UCAV-9 "Worker" drones, which are manned with 50. BMG triple barreled rotary autocannons to aid the CMR-413.
- Exaggerated:
- Instead of using UCAV-9's, the CMR-413 can instead opt for UCAV-12 "Soldier" drones, which are not only armed with 20mm quadruple barreled rotary autocannons, but are also armed with AIM-9 sidewinders, essentially making them unmanned fighter aircrafts of their own, at the cost of the CMR-413 only being able to carry two UCAV-12's instead of the twenty or so UCAV-9's.
- In the far future, the WIN Sultan can deploy millions of corvette-sized UCAV-45 "Shock Troopers", armed with not only 35mm rotary autocannons, but also Photoprotoneutron Torpedoes tipped with hydrogen-splitters that detonate on contact.
- Downplayed:
- The CMR-413's inferior yet cheaper aircraft CFA-357 "King" is more of a reconnaissance aircraft (though it can surely put up a fight in case it ever gets in a dogfight), so its drones are the UCAV-6 "Scouter" drones, which are simply just Surveillance Drones used to scan the areas for any bogeys and inform the CMR-357 (and by extension the flight squadron) of any hostiles on radar. And while their primary use is for surveillance, they are also armed with 15mm single-barreled machine guns to defend themselves.
- One of the standard pieces of equipment in the Wikistani Marine Corps regiment codenamed the "Doom Troops" is the UCAV-2 "Sting Beetle", a miniature drone the size of a toaster. The sensor suite is good for reconnaissance, but the signature element of the Sting Beetle is the self-destruct charge composed of three grams of C-4. It is not unusual for the Doom Troops to do a variation of "creeping barrage" by sending a wave of three hundred Sting Beetles to blow up anywhere they need to go then charge right into the smoke cloud.
- Justified: The CMR-413's drones are designed to aid the main aircraft in case that they're outnumbered. Even a single CMR-413 could prove to be as deadly as the local One Man Air Force Reaper 1note .
- Inverted: The CMR-413 can also deploy UAV-3 "Guard" drones as an alternative, which serve nothing more than aircraft designed to take hits from missiles and guard the CMR-413.
- Subverted: As it turns out, the UCAV-9's don't actually have rotary cannons...
- Double Subverted: ...but that's only when it's not engaged in combat. When it is, prepare for More Dakka to come the enemy's way.
- Parodied: The CMR-413 can upgrade its UCAV-12 and equip them with Wave Motion Guns and other superweapons on them. And the CMR-413 can fly even faster with these upgraded UCAV-12's.
- Zig-Zagged: The CMR-413 can have a bunch of UAV's of any kind; A "balanced" CMR-413, so to speak, would carry around twenty UAV-3's and ten UCAV-9's.
- Averted: The only drones you can get on your aircraft are the UAV-3 or the UAV-6, and even then the latter doesn't have weaponry on them.
- Lampshaded: "Looks like there's more than just these planes - there's a couple drones, too!"
- Invoked: Wikistan develops these kinds of drones because their rival Tropeland is much bigger; The average ratio of a Tropeland Squadron to a Wikistan Squadron (planes only) is typically 10:1.
- Exploited: Wikistan uses these drones to distract the enemy aircraft, while the real pilots accomplish the objective.
- Defied: When approached with this idea, the Tropeland air force laughs it off, considering it either too expensive, too redundant, or too stupid to work.
- Discussed: "Watch out for the Queen! She's got UCAV's, and in packs they're tough to beat!"
- Conversed: "Man, these UCAV's are annoying as hell! How can I keep track of the CMR-413 when these UCAV's won't stop firing at me!?"
Deploy some drones to get back to Attack Drone.
