Major Greg Mordant conceived a new weapon system, Sniperbird, an RPV that allowed a soldier/pilot to fly an e-VTOL drone out away from a base, performing 'C4ISR' procedures: command, control, communication, computation, intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and kill - remotely and much less expensively. Sniperbird was a decarotor design based on Watchbird with an M1A rifle hung below the optics ball. The soldier/pilot could kill hostiles hovering unseen in an apparently empty sky.