Drones are your helpers in battles. They boost your stats, enhance supplies, and help in many other ways. They can be purchased with crystals in the Garage in the “Drones” section. You are also able to upgrade them in order to make their effects stronger.
To use the drone, you need to equip it, the same as any other gear. An equipped drone will appear in battle above your tank and will follow you, everywhere. Drones will automatically trigger following a specific event or action in battles -- you don’t need to activate them yourself. After the activation drones will become inactive until they are automatically recharged.
All drones have 2 standard parameters on top of their own unique features: additional turret damage and additional protection from incoming damage. If the drone is equipped and activated, the damage that your tank does is increased, and the damage that it takes is reduced by the number (percentage) specified in the characteristics of the drone. These parameters can be upgraded, the initial value is 1%, the maximum is 5% in the case of a fully-upgraded drone (excluding the base drone Brutus, which goes up to 10%).
Classification and Types
Drones are classified into four major types: Assault - who help out with attacking; Defensive - who help out with defense; Passive - who don't have situation-specific effects; and lastly, Support drones - who support a player or their teammates in many situations.
Passive Drones
| Name | Description | Effect | Price | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Brutus 
|
This drone gives an additional protection and damage bonus from 1% to 10% when active. The bonus granted depends on the upgrade level. |  Additional protection: (1 → 10) %  Additional damage: (1 → 10) %
|
1 000 
|
 Corporal |
Hyperion 
|
Eliminates Smart Cooldowns and decreases cooldown for Double Armor, Double Damage, and Speed Boost based on its upgrade level. Activating a Supply causes multiple supplies of the same type to be consumed. |
 Reduction of supplies cooldown and reload: (0 → 30) s Double Armor, Double Damage, or Speed Boost consumed: 2 |
320 000
|
 Legend |
Crisis 
|
An experimental drone with the ability to significantly increase the effect of one supply while disabling others. When you activate double damage, double armor, or speed boost (or pick up a supply box), this drone switches the supply into an improved mode, while disabling and recharging the other two supplies. This drone can only be obtained from Ultra Containers under the "Exotic" rarity. |
 Additional armor: (50 → 100) %
|
- |  Recruit |
Additional damage: (25 → 
Additional speed: (20 → Assault Drones
| Name | Description | Effect | Price | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Assault 
|
Destroying an enemy tank reduces cooldown time of all active and recharging supplies. |  Recharge: 12s Reduction of supplies cooldown: (3 → 15) s
|
20 000
|
 Warrant Officer 2 |
Driver 
|
Speeds up Overdrive recharge time while destroying tanks. | Recharge: 15s  Overdrive Recharge Reduction: (10 → 30) s / kill
|
50 000
|
 Third Lieutenant |
Sprinter 
|
After picking up the flag, the ball or capturing a control point gives the effect of Double Damage, Double Armor and Speed Boost for a short time and repairs the tank. | Recharge: 20s  Active Supplies Time: (10 → 20) s Speed Boost consumed: 1 |
90 000
|
 Major |
Booster 
|
After using Double Damage increases the effect for a short time. | Recharge: 3s Power up duration: 3 s Reduction of Double Damage cooldown: 10 s
|
140 000
|
 Brigadier |
Blaster 
|
Blows up the tank after its destruction or self-destruct, damaging all nearby enemies. | Recharge: 35s  Explosion damage: (1200-1800 → 2700-3300) hp Impact force: 150 Max splash damage radius: 5m Min splash damage radius: (12 → 15) m Weak damage: 10% Double Damage consumed: 1 |
200 000
|
 Marshal |
Defensive Drones
| Name | Description | Effect | Price | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Trooper
|
After spawning, applies to your tank the effects of Double Damage, Double Armor, and Speed Boost for a short time. | Recharge: 20s Active Time: (10 → 20) s Double Armor consumed: 1 |
20 000
|
 Warrant Officer 1 |
Miner 
|
Allows for a certain number of mines to survive after the owner’s tank was destroyed. | Recharge: 10s  Number of saved up mines: (3 → 30) Reduction of Mine cooldown: 10s
|
50 000
|
 Warrant Officer 4 |
Defender
|
After activating Double Armor increases the effect for a short time. | Recharge: 3s Power up duration: 20s Additional supply power: (25→ 100) % Reduction of Double Armor cooldown: 10 s Double Armor consumed: 3 |
90 000
|
 First Lieutenant |
Lifeguard
|
After receiving fatal damage, protects the tank from destruction and instantly repairs it. | Recharge: 30s  Healing: (250 → 3000) hp Repair Kits consumed: 2 |
140 000
|
 Major General |
Saboteur 
|
After placing a mine will also place several additional mines around the spot. | Recharge: 40s  Number of mines: (3 → 8)  Mine activation delay: (2 → 0.5) s Mines consumed: 4 |
200 000
|
 Field Marshal |
Support Drones
| Name | Description | Effect | Price | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mechanic
|
After using Repair Kit, will grant an additional bonus to instant repair effect and expand the effect to nearby allies. | Recharge: 30s HP Bonus: (100 → 500) hp  Heal Radius: (15 → 25) m Reduction of Repair Kit cooldown: 10 s Battle Score: 7 points |
20 000
|
 Sergeant-Major |
Engineer 
|
Significantly increases the duration of supply drops and shares the effect of the picked up supply box with all allies. | Recharge: 10s Bonus Time (RK) (2 → 4) s Bonus Time (Other) (20 → 40) s Battle Score: 1 point per teammate who receives the effect |
50 000
|
 Warrant Officer 5 |
Supplier 
|
Prolongs the active time of the supplies Double Damage, Double Armor and Speed Boost, and also “shares” the effect of activated supplies with nearby allies. | Recharge: 10s Active Time: (1 → 5) s  Effects' Radius: (15 → 25) m Battle Score: 5 points |
90 000
|
 Captain |
Trickster
|
After activating Speed Boost cancels the reload on all other supplies and shares this effect with nearby allies. | Recharge: 10s  Effective range: (20 → 30) m Reduction of Speed Boost cooldown: 5s Battle Score: 10 points |
140 000
|
 Colonel |
Camper
|
Speeds up the recharge time of supplies when the tank is at full health. | Cooldown on respawn: 7s Bonus supplies recharge speed: (100 → 500) %
|
200 000
|
 General |
Batteries
Batteries are a supply type, which will be automatically used in battles when you have any of the drones equipped. Same as other supplies, you will be able to purchase batteries in the Garage and in the Shop, find within containers and, obtain through Missions and Challenges, and of course, win in contests.
- One battery costs 300 .
- One battery is used per minute by any drone.
Interesting Facts
- Drones were part of a secret project, named "Project Energizer". They were first hinted when the developers edited the Development Plans page in the Wiki, where they added a mysterious point under the Work in Progress header. In a special thread in the forum, only one tanker correctly guessed what a part of it would be, Musa.
- Drones run on batteries, and they use them one at a time per minute, even if you're unwilling to use them. It is important to unequip a drone if you're not planning on using one, otherwise, they will waste your batteries!
- Initially, twelve drones were planned to be released, but only three were released in the first wave - «Assault», «Trooper» and «Mechanic».
- Contradictory to the first speculations, animated paints do move on the drone, but the movement is very hard to spot due to the small size.
- On the 23rd of June, an additional three drones were added, namely «Driver», «Engineer» and «Supplier».
- For the duration of the 2018 World UFO Day celebrations, the visual appearance of Drones was changed to a flying saucer.
- On November 29th, 2019, the «Hyperion» drone was added to the game during the Black Friday celebrations. The following day, it was also added to a special bundle available for purchase in the Shop from the rank of
Marshal. - All drones have 20 micro-upgrade steps, and cost 1,000,000
to upgrade fully without sales or speedups. The only exception is Brutus, who only costs half that at 500,000 to max out. - Drones that have the effect of reducing a cooldown on a supply (Mechanic, Defender, Booster, Trickster, and Miner) don't just reduce the cooldown induced by the activation of that supply: using other supplies also speed up its recharge. This means you can activate the associated supply much more often!
- In the past, there have been a couple of special missions that reward drones. Because they were available to complete at ranks lower than the usual unlock rank, you will sometimes see tankers using Blaster or Lifeguard in battles lower than the unlock rank for those drones.
