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Old 2011-08-05, 06:07 PM   [Ignore Me] #15
EASyEightyEight
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Re: Light Air Cav Transport


Originally Posted by Malorn View Post
So a medium air-transport's purpose is to "dish out firepower", not carry passengers?

This thread is about something like a Blackhawk, not something like an Apache.
It's not a medium transport at that point, but it does carry passengers being that it's large enough. It's basically the medium tank of air craft... with spare passenger slots and low altitude hot dropping functionality.

It's purpose is to provide lasting aerial support as a gunship. If you want a super light transport for 4 people, put rails on a mossy/reaver. There's your huey.

Why have a pure medium air transport for low level aerial insertions when you can have a high flying, heavy armored Galaxy that even allows troops to spawn and hotdrop from within it instead? A simple aerial medium transport would be doomed to the same fate as a deliverer/sunderer if all it did was shuffle people from point A to point B, it just flies now.

Think Halo's Pelican, or the second aircraft the OP linked. Think USCM Marine drop ship from "Aliens," only PS2's equivalent requires a dedicated gunner to work the real firepower of the aircraft. Think of it as the Galaxy Gunship, only compact and a bit more maneuverable, less overall firepower and armor, but has passenger slots.

As for the deliverer and the sunderer, they're going to need some real useful gimmicks to give them purpose beyond moving people from point A to point B, but that's for another thread.
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