Sentry drone

Sentry Drone
A basic and an upgraded sentry drone
Unit
Affiliation	United States Townes Malcolm Granger Alexis Alexander Leang
Role	Reconnaissance drone
Armament	None (unupgraded) Machine gun (upgraded)
Properties
Hit points	300
Armor type	Humvee Armor
Production
Cost	$800 $1000 (General Alexander)
Build time	0:10
Produced by	American war factory Chinese war factory (Leang only)
Hotkey	S0
Combat
Ground attack	8 (Comanche Vulcan)
Cooldown	200
Speed	60 (50 if badly damaged)
Attack range	150
Sight range	200-350
Function
Upgrades	Sentry drone gun Drone armor
Abilities	Stealthed Detects stealth
Notes
Strong vs infantry, vehicles. Weak vs tanks, aircraft.

Sentry drones were American remote-controlled drones with scanning equipment, deployed during the War against the GLA.

Background

Sentry Drones are very fast. When not moving, they enter stealth mode. The are also able to detect other stealth units. When upgraded Sentry Drones gain access to a 20mm autocannon. Rumor has it that the Chinese General Leang also had the ability to construct sentry drones.

Upgrades

	Sentry Drone Gun	Upgrades all Sentry Drones with 20mm machine guns.	Purchasable at any USA War Factory in Zero Hour for $800
	Drone Armor	Increases Sentry Drones' armor by 25%.	Purchasable at any Strategy Center for $500

Game unit

Individual Sentry Drones are vulnerable to most other vehicles, and in particular enemy armour, which their machine guns are next to useless against. They take up one unit space on Chinooks allowing them to be deployed in several per transport. They are most effective at guarding supply piles and destroying unarmed dozers, supply trucks, and GLA workers.

It suffers from a delayed response to commands, making Humvees more practical to use as scouts. Sentry Drones are unarmed by default and quite costly; being limited machines, they can not gain battlefield experience and veterancy. They are, however, indeed quite useful as sentries. Positioned around a base they can detect any stealthy infantry units attempting infiltration, and then gun them down. Jarmen Kell and Hijackers, in particular, are easy prey for the drones as they have no defense against them.

Changelog

• Zero Hour patch 1.03:
  • no longer automatically engages on enemy units when stealthed
  • now benefits from drone armour upgrade

Trivia

• The sentry drone appears to be a larger version of the TALON robot presently used by the US military, the larger size appears to be needed to accommodate the 20mm auto cannon, that it can be upgraded to.

See also

Internal

• Robotics
• Spy drone
• Scout drone
• Battle drone
• Hellfire drone
• Drone armor

External

• TALON at Wikipedia

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