Condor Heavy Lift Transport

LTC-68 Condor Heavy Lift and Transport Helicopter
Minor Faction	Allied Reservists
Other Faction(s)	Cult of the Black Hand
Unit Type	Transport Helicopter
Designation	Transport
Production Building	Command Centre
Secondary Ability	Disembark Cargo
Cost	Unknown
Production Time	Unknown
Heroic Upgrade	N/A
Dev. Status	Conceptual

Country of Origin	France
Produced by/ Recovered from	Aviation et Aérospatial, Toulouse
Key Features	» Armoured pilot seats  » Relatively comfy bench seats (x4)  » Spectrum target designator  » Heavy, state-of-the-art tilt rotor  » Winch for carrying vehicles

Tactical Analysis

• Big Bird: Condors are basically bigger brothers to the Cardinal. Like the Cardinal, they can transport Allied forces, although, being bigger, obviously have a larger carrying capacity.

• Recon team moving out: As part of the Peacekeeper Recon reinforcements, the Condor is dedicated to providing airlift duties for the Recon fleets, and are known to swoop into the battlezone, loaded with Recon Leopards.

• Target locked on: The Condor also mounts a spectrum target designator, identical to the one used on the Cardinal. The designator can be used to support Allied forces, although the Condor is not equipped with any other weapons to maximize carrying capacity.

• Specialised: As a result of their lack of armament, Condors are vulnerable to just about any unit that can hit flying targets. Despite their durability, it would be foolish to fly one of these transports straight into unfriendly fire, especially if they happen to be carrying expensive cargo.

Operational History

One of the main goals of the Recon Peacekeeper Divisions is to be able to operate anywhere and anytime while being able to project force when they are needed. For obvious reasons, they therefore needed an airborne vehicle to insert forces where land and sea transports wouldn't be able to reach. The Cardinal, the main Allied alternative, was simply not able to carry the amount of forces sometimes needed on these missions, and it was prone to being shot down over enemy territory. The responsible officers therefore requested two attributes of the air transport; it was to be able to carry several men, and it was to be sturdy enough to survive a fair amount of anti-aircraft fire.

When the Peacekeepers were choosing their new MEDEVAC design, the Cardinal was chosen over a heavier design, the French Condor Heavy Lift Transport. The latter was deemed too heavy and costly to maintain, but was indeed bigger and more armoured - just what the Recon Peacekeepers desired. The blueprints were brought back to the Allied Quartermasters, and after a short time the decision was made and the French company Aviation et Aérospatial received a surprising call and a multi-million dollar contract. Manufacturing plants were soon mass-producing these transport beasts, which soon became a common sight around Allied bases.

As recon missions are few and far between, most Condor pilots never see more action than transporting troops from one base to another, but when they finally come the pilots are usually excited to contribute. While the helicopters don't carry any weapons due to weight reasons, just like the Cardinal (some say suspiciously like the Cardinal, although not in hearing distance of any AeA worker) they are equipped with spectrum target designators, used to the same effect as by their Cardinal colleagues. Statistics show that the casualties due to shot-down helicopters in recon missions have decreased by 50%, a number that the Allies are more than happy with. As a result, more Condors have been ordered.

Comanche

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Comanche
Minor Faction	Cult of the Black Hand
Other Faction(s)	Allied Reservists
Unit Type	Gunship
Designation	Anti-Air/Anti-Vehicle
Production Building	Stolen Tech
Secondary Ability	Switch Spectrum Rocket Target/Spectrum Painter Attack targets, requires 3 second lock-on/Reduces Target Defence And Speed
Cost	Unknown
Production Time	Unknown
Heroic Upgrade	Stolen Anthena Satellite
Dev. Status	Conceptual

Country of Origin	France
Trained at	Pelican Helicopter Plant #1, Hurst
Key Features	» ...  » ...  » ...  » ...  » ...

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Tactical Analysis

• Gunship reporting in!: Stealing a few Condors, under the guise of shipping, and modifying them with the Allied Spectrum technology. The Comanche locks onto a target, during which it remains invisible, with its Spectrum painter before unleashing a salvo of missiles that thats vehicles and aircraft to rust into dust.

• Need a little ground support?: Alternatively, like the Guardian and Reservist Mastiff, the Comanche can simply use their painter to mark their target for the Cult to attack, but additional modifications also cause the painter to dsrupt their targets communications, slowing them down.

• I can't hold her!: However, the modifications made to their Spectrum painter have now made it incapable of marking small targets such as infantry, thus they should watch out for Rocket Defenders. And while it's invisible the lock on time before it attack means that it could be detected before it fires.

• The sun is a deadly laser: Ever since the first Athena launch, the Cult has been slowly stealing and amassing an array of Athena modified with their Death Ray, but it's kept hidden as the use of the satellites could risk being found. High-ranking Comanche pilots can request to use these satellites, through sleeper agents, to further increase their range and firepower.

Operational History

A damaged tape of a conversation, between two men, later confirmed as Confederate members of the now extinct cell 99, James Soloman and Michael McNeil, recovered in the wreckage from a Reservist attack on a group of vehicles, later confirmed to be Confederate forces, with major civilian casualties.

James: So tell. Michael, why are we having this conversation in the middle of nowhere, in a seedy bar in the back alley?

Michael: It's about the raid on the Reservist base we did a few months ago.

James: What about it, I already took part in that raid. And we found nothing of importance.

Michael: Remember those Condors we found hidden in the back of the base? The one that had its transport space replaced with missile launchers and ammo storage.

James: Yeah? The boys nicknamed it the "Comanche".

Micheal: Well the mechanical eggheads reported back a week ago. And we found some, shall we say, illegal modifications.

James: What do you mean by "illegal"?

Micheal: Firstly, the missile is connected to the Spectrum painter. And our controlled test has shown that, like those Javelin soldiers, the painter first locks on to its target before firing a barrage of missiles, and despite various tries, the missiles will not fire if there is no lock on. On the other hand, this allows the Comanche to fire upon aircraft. Not only that, but the painter has also been extensively modified so that it now disrupts the radio and engines of its target, severely hindering their victim's communications to HQ and movement, but this also made it impossible to lock onto small targets such as infantry.

James: Interesting McNeil, but what, exactly, does this make the Comanche "illegal"? Right now it sounds like something the blue boys would make.

Micheal: That, my friend, lies in the missiles. To be exact its missiles used horrific chemicals in place of explosives. from tests conducted the payload consists of a gas of unknown composition that causes metal to rapidly corrode as if the gas was eating the metal while humans would begin to liquefy as if struck by Soviet Desolators. And from tests on animals, the death is not pretty, or fast...

James: Dear god...

Micheal: Not only that but upon closer inspection we also found that it was connected to an Athena. But there was something wrong, from what we could best gather these Athena packed more power and lacks the lock on time of its sisters. The eggheads nickname the beams "death rays".

James: So you're saying that the Allies are starting to break their own laws to hunt us down?

Micheal: That's the interesting thing about this whole situation. All of our investigations point to us that the Allies have absolutely no idea about the Comanche. From what I gathered the Comanche was an illegal mod made by spies within the Allies. And not just that, but by investigating Allied attacks these past few months, all of the civilian casualties caused by the Reservist were done by a helicopter that resembled the Comanche and the circumstances of their deaths match the effect of its payload!

James: Are you sure this isn't some wild goose chase made by the Allies or those mad yelling of the conspiracy nuts?

Micheal: I thought it could be that too. So I sent a Delta Ranger to investigate the Allied report on the dates the Comanche supposedly attack. Not only were the reports of deaths caused by the Comanche falsified, often downplaying what happened, but the Ranger I sent disappeared after sending the reporting, and I can only assume the worst. And do you remember the accident a few days ago?

James: How could I? We not only lost half of our facility, including the Comanche and a good number of men.

Micheal: Well, I did some secret investigating, and I fear that the fire wasn't an accident but an inside job. There was evidence, though well hidden, that showed that some of our own started that fire and purposely destroyed the facility.

James: Micheal, are you saying-

Micheal: That we've been compromised, yes. And I fear it runs deeper than we think, that whoever has infiltrated us and the Allies have also infiltrated into the others, and most likely are creating false flag operations to antagonize each other, and they've infiltrated deep enough that no one bats an eye on their false reports. That's why I ask to meet here, I can't trust anyone anymore.

James: So you're telling me someone is stealing the Reservists Condors, upgrading them, and have been using them, under the guise of the Reservists, to attack civilians and structures just to give us more reasons to kill the Allies?

Michael: Yes. And from the cross reference, this has been done for at least a few months.

James: Christ...

A few seconds of silence

James: We need to warn the other cells, especially general Carvilles, we need to find out who these "Comanche" pilots, and whoever they work for, and deliver some frontier justice for their murder of the innocent and using the Allies as a scapegoat. the Allies may be monsters but I will not blame them for crimes they didn't commit.

Michael: Agreed.

Sound of an opening followed by the starting of car engines, then static

James: Brink, why aren't we moving?

Brink: I don't know sir, something is interfering with our engines.

Faint sounds of helicopter rotors follow

Michael: Do you hear that?

Brink: Sir, I'm detecting Spectrum signatures.

Rotor sounds increase

James: *STATIC*! Above us!

Sound of car engines, followed by the blasts of rocket launches, screams, and the sound of burning metal.

James: *pained gasp* Who, who are you?

Sound of a gun cock, and a bang

???: Captain Anton of the (state) Reservist reporting. Found the Leader of Confederate cell 99, confirmed that targets has been executed. Casualties, a few dumb Americans.