What's the smallest (in kg) support vehicle small drone we can make?
A 100kg drone is the smallest, at least that I can see fiddling in megamek lab. With a 1kg battery (which is crazy small) it can travel 47 km at 13/20 speed, where it delivers its 10kg booby trap. This is with a smart robotic control and pillion seat at 25kg. A fuel cell goes faster and farther then the battery, but I thought the battery made more sense. This is also all tech d, tech C to match standard LRM munitions would slow it down to 11/17 with the battery.
So at 100kg, its bigger then an LRM, but able to be Thunderbolt-10 or Arrow launched perhaps. How do you transport small 100kg support vehicles?
Since the damage is only 1.3, for moving 13 at .1 tons (or 11 with the tech C engine), and it says to round fractions up, it looks like 1.3 rounds up to 2 AE damage to the target hex, and 1 AE damage to all units within 3 hexes at 1/2, 1/4, and 1/8th damage. Thats not bad honestly--you wont do too much, but will kill with the AE damage multiplier a lot of infantry from a LOT of hexes, as well as getting those sweet motive and through armor crit rolls on tanks.
Now, megameklab shows that the SRCS doesnt take up any weight on this 100kg small support vtol, and costs 100k. Feels about right as this robot is bigger and more complex then a simple and tiny single LRM.