Vulture – Hovercycle
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Appereance : In game
Vulture – Hovercycle
Yeah
Appereance : In game
Fast multi-role hover bike. It´s propelled by ion thrusters, which are powered by small reactor [...]. The vulture is the fastest ground unit. It´s effectiveness drops slightly in dificult terrain, but on large open plains the Vulture is very useful for patroland scouting purposes. Vulture can reach up to 1.5m height, if needed (depends on the surface), but standard hover height is about 30cm [2]. The bike can overcome 70° elevation with front thrusters on minimum and aft on maximum or it can jump safely to the depth of 4 meters. If the Vulture is about to land, three supports frames emerges from below and the gravitional systems shut down. Vulture is driven by on pilot. It is a open vehicle, so it can´t be used in vacuum as long as the pilot is not equipped with life support. The pilot is wearing light armour and he has radio, air filter, helmet with HUD display and single-handed RATO 3 [...] shotgun so he can fire and drive simultaneously. There is also a reflector on the front. The main armament is 50mm APG-2 [4] anti personnel fragmentation grenades launcher [...] or laser cannon[...][3]. Both mounted in front. The grenades are only effective against small and light armoured targets. Optionally the Vulture can be equipped with Spider mines [...] in space behind the pilot. But, it can carry only three mines at a time. Spider mines are extremely explosive charges, that if activated, bury themselves in the ground and wait for enemy units to approach. It has active detector system, that responds to ground shakes. Once activated, the mines will arm themselves and scuttle towards their targets. It´s high damage usually destroys or badly damages any target. However the mine doesn´t detect hovering units such as Vulture itself, archons [...], probes [...], drones [...]