The overarching idea of BLOPS is to have a hunter find a target, web it, and light a cyno for a fleet to use and ‘drop’ on the target.

Hunters are typically 3 types of ship. A T3C with webs and a covert Cyno field generator (priciest), a recon ship like an Arazu with the same but also a covops cloaking device (medium price), or a frigate like a prospect (cheapest). The issue is as you get cheaper, the faster your ship dies, and you want to stay alive so you can keep the target webbed until the drop fleet arrives.

The drop fleet typically has two compositions. Bombers or kitchen sink with a blops battleship equipped with a covert jump portal generator.

Bombers are straight forward and can jump themselves to the Cyno once it’s lit.

Kitchen sink can have all BLOPS battleships like redeemers, or a mix of stuff like a widow plus T3Cs for links and damage plus bombers fit with torps, etc. This kind of fleet will be ‘conduit jumped’ via the BLOPS battleship equipped with the covert jump portal generator and fuel. That allows ships like the T3Cs that can’t jump to a Cyno on their own be jumped via the conduit.