What do the airplanes do?

[The Kingpin]

You've probably noticed the triangular-shaped airplanes that fly around in circles near your main base/titan.

They usually get in the way of my AA targeting, so I shoot them down when there aren't any targets.

Do they actually do anything?

[Drewsly]

Yup they are eithar your or the enemys UAV

[Skates]

Yup they are eithar your or the enemys UAV

Yes, look at your mini-map and if you don't have a UAV up there, shoot it down so the enemy won't have it anymore. Another thing you can do is be in the habit of looking up from time to time to see if the enemy has a UAV up over you. Let's you know if that guy around the corner already knows where you are.

[DarkRing]

Don't worry about them, they're harmless. Nothing to worry about. You can just leave them alone, it won't hurt you.

If you believe that, there is some beach front property deep in the sahara you might be interested in.

[GrossKopf]

It's the government watching you. The future version of the CIA black helicopters.

[Howpathetic]

Actaully they are real fun if you can time it right to deploy to kill gunships/transports, I have about a 10% success rate while playing comander doing this. No kill points though, but nothing brightens my day more then when someone on the other team say "*&$#@ I keep crashing into the UAV's"

[DarkRing]

Like birds in the engine. It's a beautiful thing.

[Skates]

Like birds in the engine. It's a beautiful thing.

I remeber to good ol days when you could snipe from the top of the buildings on Berlin. A couple were at just the right height for the UAV to skim to top and knock you off.

[Dtneter]

oh yeah ive done that many times as commander see any roofcampers with a beacon? no problem drop a supply box next to the beacon so it slides over it then do orbital strike after it and instant uav result no more campers.

[Howpathetic]

I remeber to good ol days when you could snipe from the top of the buildings on Berlin. A couple were at just the right height for the UAV to skim to top and knock you off.

You can still do that, the secret now is to delpoy the UAV centered, where the outside loop(circle pattern) just barely skims the builing, the UAV's are now set up where their circle widens just a little each pass. But once the height is set, is doesn't climb or descend. I jumped and surfed on one to get to another building top. Unfortanatly, when they end(detonate) though and your on them, you end too.