6mm SciFi Spacecraft - Dragonfly-class Recon Pod

6mm SciFi Spacecraft - Dragonfly-class Stealth Recon Pod

The Dragonfly-class Recon Pod, is a light, short-range, low-endurance, aerospace interceptor and recon spacecraft. It aims to fill the niche role for an short-range recon craft, able to deploy rapidly for environmental reconnaissance, search & rescue, and light point defence tasks.

While the Dragonfly is armed (two small lasers), it is not at all intended for use in a fighter combat role, as it features a minimum level of armour protection and the environmental sustainment capacity for its bare-essentials pilot life support system typically holds no more than 36 hours of oxygen supply. With a recommended operational endurance of 18 hours per flight mission, and a tiny, cramped cockpit, the Dragonfly is intended to be a short range fore-runner for larger craft (environmental recon) or stand-off observer craft. While it may seem these factors sum to make the Dragonfly a poor choice for its task, it also happens to have an incredibly low detection profile; so much so that it is often mistakenly thought to be a true stealth craft. And it is also a very inexpensive for an aerospace fighter-class of spacecraft.

Furthermore, the Dragonfly carries a very well-regarded multimodal senor 'pod' (mounted beneath the cockpit pod) as part of its standard production suite. This gives it an integral capability to collect a broad range of optical and ELINT signals across the electro-magnetic emission bands reserved for military use. One particularly rare variant of the Dragonfly from times-past, even mounts an electronic attack ECM pod, and occasionally such a version might still be found within the active employ of a free-lancing aerospace fighter mercenary force.

Bonus. This set also includes in a 'wheels-down,' landed version.

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