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Created page with "==Rotary Wing== *UH-1 Huey Slick - Utility Helicopter *UH-1 Huey Gunship - Gunship helicopter *OH-6 Cayuse - Scout Helicopter, aka LOACH for Light Observation Helicopter *UH-34 Seahorse - Medium Lift helicopter *H-21 Workhorse/Shawnee/Flying Banana - the world's worst medium lift helicopter *OH-13 Sioux, aka The Spunk Bubble - a travesty of an aircraft, arguably just a means to transport a rotor torque alarm through the sky ==Fixed Wing== ===Observation=== *OV-10 Bronc..." |
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==Rotary Wing== | ==Rotary Wing== | ||
===Utility=== | |||
*UH-1D Huey Slick - Utility Helicopter. Carries 8-10 troops and 2 door gunners, as well as 2 pilots (for when the first one gets shot) | |||
===Scouts=== | |||
*OH-6 Cayuse, aka LOACH for Light Observation Helicopter - delightful. Fast, agile, loyal door gunner, maybe a minigun. Honestly, pilot's choice. | |||
*OH-6 Cayuse | *OH-13 Sioux, aka The Spunk Bubble - a travesty of an aircraft, arguably just a means to transport a rotor torque alarm through the sky. There's a CASEVAC version which I'm pretty sure is a warcrime. | ||
*UH-34 Seahorse - Medium Lift helicopter | |||
*H-21 Workhorse/Shawnee/Flying Banana - the world's worst medium lift helicopter | ===Medium/Heavy Lift=== | ||
* | *UH-34 Seahorse / Choctaw - Medium Lift helicopter. Carries 12 troops and 1 door gunner, plus 2 pilots. | ||
*H-21 Workhorse/Shawnee/Flying Banana - the world's worst medium lift helicopter. Carries 22 troops who are all wishing it wasn't. | |||
===Gunships=== | |||
*UH-1C Huey Gunship, aka Hog - Huey with a variety of guns or rockets strapped to the side, and chonically underpowered engines (because they used the uprated Delta airframes as slicks and left the crappy Charlies for gunships) | |||
*AH-1 Cobra - the murder hornet of Army Aviation. Always a delight to see them appear over the LZ. | |||
==Fixed Wing== | ==Fixed Wing== | ||
===Observation=== | ===Observation=== | ||
*OV-10 Bronco - the beloved | *OV-10 Bronco - the beloved Mighty Steed of the AFAC. Slow, with excellent vision and a rocket-heavy armament. If the Bronco can see it, it's going to have a bad day. | ||
*O-1 Bird Dog - a Cessna that got lost and sprayed grey. Powered by a lawnmower engine and unarmed bar a radio. Scatter is weirdly fond of it despite everything. | *O-1 Bird Dog - a Cessna that got lost and sprayed grey. Powered by a lawnmower engine and unarmed bar a radio. Scatter is weirdly fond of it despite everything. | ||
*O-2 Skymaster - a travesty of an aircraft; two Cessnas got cut-and-shut. Powered by two lawnmower engines and spite. Best employed by cutting up and turning into a desk. | *O-2 Skymaster - a travesty of an aircraft; two Cessnas got cut-and-shut. Powered by two lawnmower engines and spite. Best employed by cutting up and turning into a desk. | ||
Latest revision as of 00:16, 29 September 2025
Rotary Wing
Utility
- UH-1D Huey Slick - Utility Helicopter. Carries 8-10 troops and 2 door gunners, as well as 2 pilots (for when the first one gets shot)
Scouts
- OH-6 Cayuse, aka LOACH for Light Observation Helicopter - delightful. Fast, agile, loyal door gunner, maybe a minigun. Honestly, pilot's choice.
- OH-13 Sioux, aka The Spunk Bubble - a travesty of an aircraft, arguably just a means to transport a rotor torque alarm through the sky. There's a CASEVAC version which I'm pretty sure is a warcrime.
Medium/Heavy Lift
- UH-34 Seahorse / Choctaw - Medium Lift helicopter. Carries 12 troops and 1 door gunner, plus 2 pilots.
- H-21 Workhorse/Shawnee/Flying Banana - the world's worst medium lift helicopter. Carries 22 troops who are all wishing it wasn't.
Gunships
- UH-1C Huey Gunship, aka Hog - Huey with a variety of guns or rockets strapped to the side, and chonically underpowered engines (because they used the uprated Delta airframes as slicks and left the crappy Charlies for gunships)
- AH-1 Cobra - the murder hornet of Army Aviation. Always a delight to see them appear over the LZ.
Fixed Wing
Observation
- OV-10 Bronco - the beloved Mighty Steed of the AFAC. Slow, with excellent vision and a rocket-heavy armament. If the Bronco can see it, it's going to have a bad day.
- O-1 Bird Dog - a Cessna that got lost and sprayed grey. Powered by a lawnmower engine and unarmed bar a radio. Scatter is weirdly fond of it despite everything.
- O-2 Skymaster - a travesty of an aircraft; two Cessnas got cut-and-shut. Powered by two lawnmower engines and spite. Best employed by cutting up and turning into a desk.
Attack
- A-1 Skyraider, aka Spad. Massive and overpowered pistol engine aircraft with a million pylons and a vast lift capacity Can stay on station all day, come in at treetop height and walking pace to spaff napalm over the broad area.
- A-4 Skyhawk, aka Scooter - baby strike jets catapulted off Navy carriers.
- A-6 Intruder - medium bombers catapulted off Navy carriers. Bombs for days, and tiny engines that give a weird whisting noise as they overfly you.
- A-7 Corsair-II - Air Force medium bomber. Fast and angry, bombs for days.
- A-37 Dragonfly, aka Super Tweet - the tiniest little fighter bomber that could. Adorable. No notes. Will not hear a bad word spoken against.
Fighters
- F-4 Phantom - Air Force heavy fighter. Missile armed, your best defence against MiGs.
- F-8 Crusader - Air Force fighter. Gun armed, sometimes beats up ground targets for us.
- F-100 Super Saber, aka Hun (for Hundred) - light fighter/bomber.
- F-105 Thunderchief, aka Thud - verrrrry fast fighter bomber with tiny windows and crap visibility. Cross your fingers.
Bombers
- B-52 Stratofortress. Any air callsign with the prefix Heavy is probably one of these. Bombs for weeks; they're flying so high they can't see anything. Read your map grids verrrry carefully.