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The other important ship attribute is its "bandwidth" (which you can also check in the Attributes tab of your ship's Show Info window), which represents your ship's ability to control your drones, and is measured in Mbit/sec. Bigger and more powerful drones require more bandwidth, and you can only deploy (ie use in space) as many drones as you have available bandwidth on your ship. Many ships (particularly dedicated drone ships) can carry many more drones in their drone bay than they can deploy at once; this allows you to selectively deploy different types of drones to best match your enemies, or to replace drones which are destroyed in combat.

However, irrespective of your ship's bandwidth, you can only only have as many drones in space at once as you have levels in the {{sk|Drones}} skill (up to 5 drones at level V). The only ~~exceptions~~ to this limit ~~are [[Capital_Ship#Carriers|carriers]] and [[Capital_Ship#Supercarriers|supercarriers]] (both [[capital|capital ships]]) and~~ the very rare [[Guardian-Vexor]] cruiser, but in every other case you can only ever have at most five drones in space at once.

However, irrespective of your ship's bandwidth, you can only only have as many drones in space at once as you have levels in the {{sk|Drones}} skill (up to 5 drones at level V). The only exception to this limit is the very rare [[Guardian-Vexor]] cruiser, but in every other case you can only ever have at most five drones in space at once.

{{example|The Tristan has a 40 m<sup>3</sup> drone bay, allowing it to carry up to eight light drones. Its bandwidth is 25 Mbit/s, so that it can deploy, at most, five of those light drones in space at once (they need 5 Mbit/s each), but only if the pilot has trained the {{sk|Drones}} skill to level V. If it's carrying a mixture of light and medium drones, it could deploy up to two medium (10 Mbit/s each) and one light drone at once, assuming the pilot has trained Drones III.}}

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== Capital combat drones ==

{{update|The fighter and fighter-bomber mechanics changed heavily in the Citadel expansion.}}

Capital ships can only use fighters and fighter-bombers, they cannot use subcapital drones (light, medium, heavy, and sentry drones).

=== Fighters ===

Fighters are frigate-sized drones that do cruiser-sized damage and can only be fielded by [[Capital_Ship#Carriers|carriers]] and [[Capital_Ship#Supercarriers|supercarriers]]. They are capable of warping, and will pursue a target into warp - the only escape from fighters is to jump system or to dock<ref group=ref>[http://wiki.eveonline.com/wiki/Item_Database:Drones:Combat_Drones:Fighters EVE Online Wiki: Fighters]</ref>. They need the same amount of bandwidth as heavy drones (25 Mbit/s), but compared to them, fighters are a little faster, do a little more damage, and are much tougher.

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 The other important ship attribute is its "bandwidth" (which you can also check in the Attributes tab of your ship's Show Info window), which represents your ship's ability to control your drones, and is measured in Mbit/sec. Bigger and more powerful drones require more bandwidth, and you can only deploy (ie use in space) as many drones as you have available bandwidth on your ship. Many ships (particularly dedicated drone ships) can carry many more drones in their drone bay than they can deploy at once; this allows you to selectively deploy different types of drones to best match your enemies, or to replace drones which are destroyed in combat.
-However, irrespective of your ship's bandwidth, you can only only have as many drones in space at once as you have levels in the {{sk|Drones}} skill (up to 5 drones at level V). The only exceptions to this limit are [[Capital_Ship#Carriers|carriers]] and [[Capital_Ship#Supercarriers|supercarriers]] (both [[capital|capital ships]]) and the very rare [[Guardian-Vexor]] cruiser, but in every other case you can only ever have at most five drones in space at once.
+However, irrespective of your ship's bandwidth, you can only only have as many drones in space at once as you have levels in the {{sk|Drones}} skill (up to 5 drones at level V). The only exception to this limit is the very rare [[Guardian-Vexor]] cruiser, but in every other case you can only ever have at most five drones in space at once.
 {{example|The Tristan has a 40&nbsp;m<sup>3</sup> drone bay, allowing it to carry up to eight light drones. Its bandwidth is 25&nbsp;Mbit/s, so that it can deploy, at most, five of those light drones in space at once (they need 5&nbsp;Mbit/s each), but only if the pilot has trained the {{sk|Drones}} skill to level V. If it's carrying a mixture of light and medium drones, it could deploy up to two medium (10&nbsp;Mbit/s each) and one light drone at once, assuming the pilot has trained Drones III.}}
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 == Capital combat drones ==
+{{update|The fighter and fighter-bomber mechanics changed heavily in the Citadel expansion.}}
+Capital ships can only use fighters and fighter-bombers, they cannot use subcapital drones (light, medium, heavy, and sentry drones).
 === Fighters ===
 Fighters are frigate-sized drones that do cruiser-sized damage and can only be fielded by [[Capital_Ship#Carriers|carriers]] and [[Capital_Ship#Supercarriers|supercarriers]]. They are capable of warping, and will pursue a target into warp - the only escape from fighters is to jump system or to dock<ref group=ref>[http://wiki.eveonline.com/wiki/Item_Database:Drones:Combat_Drones:Fighters EVE Online Wiki: Fighters]</ref>. They need the same amount of bandwidth as heavy drones (25 Mbit/s), but compared to them, fighters are a little faster, do a little more damage, and are much tougher.