Children of a Dead Earth

Children of a Dead Earth

BlueBolt Drone
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Update: 25 Aug, 2017 @ 8:19pm

Uploaded Design

Made several improvements thanks to collaboration with trebacca9

- Fuel: Tanks now made out of selenium saving A LOT of weight
- Reactor: Changed to a cobalt-60 design, higher output temp and a much lighter radiator
- Cannon: Changed projectile to selenium

Changed armor to graphite aerogel from silica to keep the sweet black paint job

Update: 23 Aug, 2017 @ 2:50am

Uploaded Design

Complete overhaul of all components to save weight and cost.

- Redesigned Cannon: Slower fire rate, but increased velocity and accuracy

- New Generator: Required a bigger radiator, but brought the price down significantly

- External fuel tanks: Looks kinda funny, but saves on weight and reduces cross section

- Small tweaks to the rocket

Update: 25 Jun, 2017 @ 3:05pm

Updated Design:

- Redesigned the reactor, doubling the exit temperature at the cost of efficiency and weight (a few grams). This allowed me to lighten the radiators, which resulted in an overall weight saving of a few hundred grams. Plus they glow now.

- Reduced the diameter of the drone by changing the height to radius ratio of the fuel tanks, saving further weight on armor.

(An interesting effect was noticed during testing where low power lasers would hit the barrel of the cannon, which is 2cm carbon, effectively blocking the laser entirely. With the smaller diameter, hopefully this should happen more often.)

- Finally ironed out the behaviour of the drone, now it should stay on target regardless of what behaviour you choose

- Made it pretty for the thumbnail, so I can get those shameless workshop views (At the expense of weight tho, I'll change it back soon maybe)

Update: 25 Jun, 2017 @ 3:00pm

Uploaded BlueBolt Drone

Update: 23 Jun, 2017 @ 7:26pm

Updated Design

- Replaced cannon barrel armor with amorphous carbon, resulting in better accuracy, total heat dispersion from the barrel and a reduction in weight

- Made a custom remote control to try and remove the ridiculous drone swarm effect, drones should be much more likely to simply strafe the target

- Slight improvements to the thruster

Update: 23 Jun, 2017 @ 12:37am

Uploaded BlueBolt Drone