DX-6 Remora Drone Stealth Fighter

The DX-6 Remora Drone Fighter is a small drone fighter recently developed by the Tau Empire's Earth Caste. Packed with advanced Tau technology, Remoras were first encountered by the Imperium during the Tau's raid on the Imperial penal mining colony of Typha-IV. The Remora is a stealth Drone aircraft that commonly flies in support of Pathfinder and Stealthsuit teams in scouting and reconnaissance missions, where they excel in conducting high speed hit-and-run attacks and rapid flanking manoeuvres. Remoras often work to disrupt and scatter enemy troops whilst singling out and destroying enemy targets of strategic value, such as command vehicles and enemy support vehicles, with their heavier armaments of Seeker Missiles. Remoras are capable of operating as flyers or skimmers in combat, giving them great versatility in their deployment and tactical movements. Remoras themselves have a short operating range and need to be carried into battle underneath a modified Tiger Shark AX-2-2 variant mothership, or in the back of a specially modified Manta. Whilst the Drones are artificially intelligent and have some degree of self initiatitive, they still rely on their mothership aircraft to relay data towards the drone fighters and direct them whilst in combat with their advanced Drone Controller systems. Mothership aircraft often direct Remoras from a high altitude and usually do not actively participate in the main battle that is on the ground. In the rare event a mothership aircraft disengages from the battle, or is destroyed, Remora fighters will revert back to their basic programming and begin to suffer from their lack of direction, making their manoeuvrability sluggish and slow as they move aimlessly.

Armament
Remoras are armed with twin-linked long-barrelled Burst Cannons as their primary armament, allowing them to target infantry from long ranges effectively. Remoras also carry two Seeker Missiles which can be fired upon targets designated by Marker Light operators on the ground, or the Remoras own Networked Marker Light. The Remoras Seeker Missiles are most effective against light to medium armour targets as the Remoras speed allows it to move into positions where its Seeker Missiles can strike the more vulnerable side or rear armour of vehicles. Remoras are equipped with a Targetting Array and Blacksun Filter as standard. The Targetting Array increases the accuracy of the Remora when firing its Burst Cannons and Networked Marker Light, whilst the Blacksun filter utilises its optical filters to give the Drone fighter better combat effectiveness in low-light conditions and darkness. Remoras are also equipped with the same Stealth field technology used by XV15 and XV25 Stealthsuits. This allows the Remora to hide itself from enemy sensors and also become all but invisible when the field is activated. It is because of its Stealth field that Remoras are a valuable tool in scouting and ambushing enemy forces whilst remaining unseen.