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Anti-Drone Destroyers
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ElSuerte Diego
Los Perros Hermanos
#1 - 2014-06-06 13:55:22 UTC
I've noticed that some of the faction war fleets I've been in have been having trouble against drone fleet comps. Would it be worth flying a destroyer designed to taking out drones in such a fleet?

The two potential hulls and fits I'm looking at are cormorants with 75mm rails or coraxes with rockets. I don't think a destroyer can afford to chase around drones, so I opted for range. I figure with a 15-20 km engagement bubble, I can cover most if not all the fleet. It looks like the corax is in the lead, but it trades range (unrigged range 15km) for slightly higher dps, slightly better tank, and no tracking problems. Drones have a sig rad of 25m while rockets have a exp rad of 15mm, so no problem there. Rocket explosion velocity is ~333m/s while light drone orbit velocity is ~600-750, so it looks like I'll need flare rigs.

I've got no clue about smartbombs, and it doesn't seem like they could do enough dps to firewall the fleet.

Thoughts?
Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
#2 - 2014-06-06 14:26:35 UTC
If you're killing drones targeting other ships, go for guns over rockets. A drone orbiting you at 600 m/s is hard to track, but a drone orbiting your buddy that's 10km away at 600 m/s is considerably easier to track. If your buddy is 20km away, it'll be trivial for a Cormorant to track it.

As for smartbombs, I'd avoid them for this purpose. Unless the drones you're trying to kill are orbiting you, you'll have to actually fly from fleetmate to fleetmate to kill the drones, and you'll just as likely damage your fleetmates in the process. And even if the drones you're trying to kill are orbiting you, small smartbombs don't really have the range to deal with drones unless you're fast enough to close range on them.

tl;dr: go with light, high tracking guns to kill drones orbiting nearby ships.

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RavenPaine
RaVeN Alliance
#3 - 2014-06-06 14:38:56 UTC
You should talk this out with you fleet FC.
In general you should kill pilots and not drones. Taking DPS away from the primary target is bad imo,
Unless your killing fighters or bombers.
Antillie Sa'Kan
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#4 - 2014-06-06 14:43:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Antillie Sa'Kan
RavenPaine wrote:
...Unless your killing fighters or bombers.

A destroyer specialized in killing fighters and fighter bombers would be interesting.
Robert Morningstar
Morningstar Excavations LTD
Business Alliance of Manufacturers and Miners
#5 - 2014-06-11 00:23:16 UTC
I did once make a suggestion for a new t2 destroyer a Agis class that if the high slots were fitted with light missile launchers loaded with defender missiles it would auto target and shoot missiles coming in to any fleet member. If that were implemented then adding anti drone would also make since and would make destroyers a little more useful in fleet engagements. It is something that our ships in real life can already do also.
Luwc
State War Academy
Caldari State
#6 - 2014-06-11 06:39:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Luwc
Try something like this.

It's very cheap and low SP friendly. of course you can upgrade the stuff to T2.

Its good for ripping both drones and hostile ships.

You might have struggle tracking the drones if they are right on top of you but your tank should last long enough for you to get out as with this ship you should keep range to the hostile ships anyway.

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