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[[File:Escort-Drone.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Escort Drone]]
'''Tyranid Escort Drones''' are heavily armed (albeit slow and ungainly) [[Destroyer]]-class{{Fn|3}} [[Escort]]s that serve as the last line of defense for a fleet's [[Hive Ship]]s. As such, they can usually be found clustering around the flanks of those massive [[Bio-ship]]s.{{Fn|1}}

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==Type of Escort Drones==
===Strangler Drone===
[[Image:StranglerDrone.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Strangler Drone]]
Equipped with [[Feeder Tentacle]]s.{{Fn|3}}
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===Caustic Drone===
[[Image:CausticDrone.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Caustic Drone]]
Equipped with [[Pyro-Acid]] Batteries.{{Fn|3}}
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===Bio-Plasma Drone===
[[Image:BioPlasmaDrone.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Bio-Plasma Drone]]
Equipped with [[Bio-Plasma]] batteries.{{Fn|3}}
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===Wardrones===
[[Image:War Drones.jpg|right|thumb|130px|War Drones{{Fn|1}}]]
'''Wardrones''' are designed solely to fight and protect the [[Norn-Queen]] and the Hiveship. They are dependent entirely on the influence of the [[Hive Mind]] in order to operate. Wardrones vary heavily in size and shape, and usually fight in swarms, using weight of numbers to perform their tasks.{{Fn|2}}
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===Stalker Drones===
[[Image:Tyranid Drone.png|thumb|right|100px|Stalker Drone]]
'''Stalker Drones''' are smaller defence ships which dart around the Hiveship, reacting immediately and frenziedly to anything that threatens it.{{Fn|1}}
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==See also==
*[[Bio-ships]]
*[[Tyranid Fleet]]
*[[Vanguard Drone Ship]]

==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=cat1290319&categoryId=1100007&section=&aId=4300022 Battlefleet Gothic Resources: Necron and Tyranid Fleets] p90 (accessed 2010.11.23)
*{{Endn|2}}: [[White Dwarf 146]] (January 1992), pg. 24
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2]]

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