RQ-9 Atlas

The RQ-9 Atlas is a controllable drone equipped with 4 missiles to strike on any enemy vehicles/infantry/buildings. To operate, a UAV GCS is required and needs to be placed down to operate the drone. It is capable of weakening enemy bases and anti air to gain advantage and distract the enemy. However, to rearm the drone, it will need to be landed on a service pad and given time to refuel and rearm.

It can swap to a thermal camera by pressing N.

Controls:
throttle: shift/control

pitch: W/S

roll: A/D

view: V

zoom in (view mode only): T

Zoom out (view mode only): G

lock (view mode only): F

fire missiles (locked on target only): left click

Night vision: N

Autopilot
The atlas can use autopilot by setting a waypoint on the drone map on the LEFT, by clicking on any point on the map, setting an altitude, then clicking "add" on the right. Autopilot can be set to be at a constant altitude, and it will orbit around a waypoint once it reaches it.

Advantages

 * Capable of weakening enemy bases and heavy vehicles.
 * Can lock onto the enemy.
 * Useful for suppressing enemy aircraft.
 * Small and hard to hit.
 * The camera is very powerful and can provide detailed information on an enemy base at range.
 * Makes it easy to find snipers hiding in a forest with the thermal camera.

Disadvantages

 * Easy to shoot down.
 * Can be detected by a SAML, making it impossible to protect.
 * Can end up missing its missile shots if not locked on properly.
 * Takes time to rearm.
 * Infantry that is not inside a vehicle or a building is incredibly hard to kill

Try to...

 * Fly above 1500 altitude. This makes your drone really hard to hit by auto AA and makes it nearly invisible to enemy infantry.
 * Work fast so that there is not enough time to shoot it down. Note this is only really applicable to smaller bases with AA
 * Avoid attacking large, built-up bases with auto AA.
 * Keep it topped off on health and missiles so it can be ready to fly at any time.

Trivia

 * It is based off of the MQ-9 Reaper, a real, american recon and attack drone.
 * its GUI was changed in the recent 1 mil update.


 * The RQ-9 Alta had 6 missiles instead of 4.
 * The alta also had a much simpler GUI.