Any vehicles IRL with launchable drones?

Just wondering if their are any military vehicles that could launch drones somewhat like in game. (Using magic to summon em doesn’t really seem “Realistic”)

There is ‘loitering munitions vehicles’ what can fire drone-shaped guided missiles. As for drones just circling an area i’m not 100% sure on. But they apparently can circle an area before dropping on a target.

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The F72-U Hero-120. Flyer Defense (has multiple variations)

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Loitering munitions gonna be insane if we get them. Can already imagine the chaos of a few of these lol

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Just imagine the commander pulling his head out and launching a scout drone

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The CV90 MK.IV has the option of UAV as a replacement for one of it’s side pods:
( https://youtu.be/ndZmqzT2nxs?si=UfOJqhOA8uMDvOMw&t=80 )

This thing. I have saw it before IRL and it basically just fly out of the box. it also currently using in Ukraine war I am very sure. Design for getting ride of Ships but in Ukraine they use it as Anti Tank.

Kamikaze drone. If i remeber correctly it just fly around in the ocean and if it find enemy target it just kamikaze. You can’t confuse it, it an AI drone.

QN-506 is able to deploy recon drone and s-570 suicide drones (missing from ingame even though launch hatch is there)

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Was about to mention that, yea. Also could be found in files when it was added

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The Ariette can fire drones through the main gun I believe

kf51 can fire the “hero” drones. It was already leaked so it kinda makes sense.
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i think there was a video of a drone coming out of a merkava’s barrel if I remember correctly.

Oh that’s actually sick

QN506 was mentioned already but the Japanese Type 10 MBT is planned to have a deployable drone installed where LFP applique would be added.

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Already had them in the 2077 event a couple years ago
Was pretty cool honestly lmao

But i dont think adding back that same kind would be a good idea since you could basically just sit in spawn and kill everything with the manual drone guidance

Maybe having it behave more like the spikes is better

There is a game on roblox called mtc4. Its a tank game and is pretty detailed. Its the game where the turm3 has actual 3aixs stab and stuff. There are drones in that game and they just one shot everything if you know how to use them. We have clearly seen from the ongoing conflicts in the world that drones just wipe the floor with tanks. And tanks straight up cant do anything about drones besides praying they get a bad hit. Adding player controlled drones to wt would just ruin the game more than kh38 spam since you wont even have to worry about getting enough sp to spawn em