Fighter

picture of fighter

History:

The primary mission of Fighter airplanes is to secure the control of essential spaces by attacking and destroying all types of enemy aircraft opera ting in their area. In the so-called dogfighting aerial combat of World War I and World War II, pilots could recognize enemy aircrafts and maneuver themselves into positions for combat by visual means. They controlled their machines manually and operated their guns by pressing the triggers whe n they were in proper firing position. Today a point has been reached where the performance capabilities of the machine far exceed the capabilities of a human pilot to control it. In supersonic aircraft at extremely high altitudes the human eyes and human reaction time are neither acute enough nor quick enough to bring the aircraft within combat range. The modern fighter airplane therefore have an almost completely automatic weapon syst em that will detect, identify and open fire at enemy aircrafts with very little help from the pilot in the cockpit. The pilot must rely upon electr onic devices and his main job is to monitor the electronic devices, take offs, landings and perhaps break off combat and return to safe base.

Hint:

Great as scout and fighting Bombers, need to return to a safe base at end of turn.

Specifications:

Advance Attack: Defence Move Resource cost
Flight 4 2 10 60

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