REALISTIC DRONE WARFARE
(formerly Realistic Drone Operations Pack)
Bring modern drone warfare to Arma Reforger: six realistic drones, AI crews that fly FPV RPG drones at their enemies, and the gear to fight back.
Watch a target from kilometres away, clear a house room by room through FPV goggles, or fly an RPG warhead into a BTR. Every drone flies on real radio bands, real satellites and real wind, and the AI see and hear drones at modelled ranges.
Standalone: no other mod needed (it also runs next to Realistic Combat Drones). Built and tested for full dedicated servers.
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CURRENT FEATURES
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DRONES
- Matrice 350 RTK - heavy recon: zoom, thermal and night camera, searchlight, obstacle sensors, return to home
- Matrice 4T - light recon with wide, zoom and thermal cameras
- Avata 2 - ducted FPV for clearing buildings, with Goggles 3 and Remote 3
- Vampire - heavy hexacopter dropper: four mortar rounds, about 8 km reach
- FPV RPG drone - one-way attack quad with a PG-7VM warhead, analog goggles and its own radio
- Commercial quad - folding consumer quad: day camera, one hand grenade on a release
AI FPV STRIKE CREWS (NEW IN 3.1)
- A pilot and a guard with four FPV RPG drones, for US, USSR and FIA
- Place them as a Game Master or build them in Conflict
- Conflict: a few FIA bases start with a crew (rare; a server setting)
- They fly to enemies their side has seen, find them with the camera and dive
- Countered like a player's drone: jam it, shoot it down or take out the pilot
COMMAND AND SUPPORT
- Drone Pickup 4x4 - deploys in seconds: live-feed and route screens, +3 km link repeater, drone rack, generator, jammer, weather station
- Drone arsenal cases (US, USSR, FIA), launch pads, battery chargers
- Observer tablet - watch any friendly drone's live feed
- Map markers - home points and renameable target marks
COUNTER-DRONE
- Jammer rifle - drops an FPV in about half a second, up to 300 m
- Jammer backpack, vehicle jammer, interceptor drone
- Drone direction finder - carry it, set it down: marks enemy drone operators and sends an idle AI team to search the spot
- AI soldiers dive for cover from a diving FPV and shoot at drones they hear
ELECTRONIC WARFARE
- Jammers on the drones' real radio bands
- Conflict: every base jams enemy drones that fly close; take the base and its jammer is yours
- GPS jamming and spoofing; satellite search on start-up
- ATTI mode - fly without GPS, the drone drifts with the wind
- Frequency hopping, burst and quiet modes, encrypted links
REALISM
- No altitude limit - thin air and stronger wind up high
- Obstacle sensors need light; at night only the infrared ones work
- A loaded drone is slower, louder and flies less
- Part-by-part damage: motors, propellers, camera, battery, GPS, frame
GAME MASTER
- Every item under Entity Browser > Filters > Realistic Drone Warfare
- Jammer areas, GPS denial zones, hunter drones, AI FPV crews, one-click cleanup
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PLANNED FEATURES
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- Jammer backpack from the arsenal: switch it on or off, on the ground or on a teammate's back
- AI recon quads spotting for the FPV crews
- More drone types and payloads
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SERVER OWNERS
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- Measured: 96 AI, 33 FPV drones and 9 AI crews at once, the server held 60 FPS
- Parked drones cost almost nothing; flying drones are sent only to players within 3 km
- Settings file (DroneOpsPack_Settings.json): drone limit, cleanup timers, dropper, interceptors, AI FPV crews, base jammers
- Late joiners see every drone, feed and deployed pickup as it is
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CONTROLS
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- Rebind under Settings > Controls > Realistic Drone Warfare
- Keyboard and mouse, Xbox and PlayStation controllers
- RC radio or joystick on USB: press F7 while flying to set it up
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CREDITS
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- Vampire model: "Vampire UAV (BabaYaga)" by Karosio (Sketchfab), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, modified
- RC Plus: 3D scan by johnnokomis (Sketchfab), CC BY 4.0, modified
- Goggles shell: 3D scan by Archive RO_BG (@goshes) (Sketchfab), CC BY 4.0, modified
- Pickup body: model by Asadawut.Kaewma (Sketchfab), CC BY 4.0, modified
- Commercial quad: "DJI Mavic 2 Pro" by MattMaksymowicz (sketchfab.com/3d-models/3e5b8566dbe24f4ba65473179650abd1), CC BY 4.0, modified
- Thermal tuning framework: MIT License, (c) 2025 Stoker
Not affiliated with DJI, Toyota or any other manufacturer. Product names only identify the real equipment; no manufacturer logos on the models.
REALISTIC DRONE WARFARE
Version 3.1.2 | Hotfix | 12 November 2026
License: APL-ND. Distributed only through this Workshop page: no reuploads, repacks or modified copies without written permission. Free to use as a dependency on your server.
Contact: questions, bugs and permission requests in the comments on this Workshop page.
