| abstract | - The Drone Sentry Turret consists of a cylindrical armoured hull with a pop-up weapons turret roughly the size of a Tau Battlesuit. The armour used in its construction is made of the same nano-crystalline compound used in other Tau vehicles and Battlesuits and this makes the turret resilient to all but heavy anti-vehicle weapons. The weapons turret is usually lowered and kept inside the hull, where it remains inactive until a suitable target is identified by the turret's sensors. It then activates and elevates the turret before leveling its weaponry and firing until all enemies are eliminated, returning to its inactive posture when there are no more targets within range. Unlike Imperial Tarantula Sentry Guns, the Drone Sentry Turret's artificial intelligence is capable of making its own targeting decisions, and can effectively differentiate between friendly and enemy units. The Drone Sentry Turret's artificial intelligence can also choose to ignore some targets in favour of others which it determines are a higher priority. The turret's primary sensor cluster is mounted in between its twin-linked weapons, and the turret is capable of spinning a full 360 degrees so that it can track targets in any position.
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