"Drone's away!" yelled Blanchard. The Rapier's Touch carried two remote-piloted drones, one in a covered rack on each side. The right rack, the one that had launched, carried a short-duration, solid-fuel winged drone that was more like a rocket than a small aircraft. It was designed to do just what it was doing: carry a video camera quickly to something the T-bird wanted to see. A single, small electric motor controlled the drone while it loitered over the target, but its flight time was very limited. It had one weapon, the equivalent of an assault rifle.