Venom (Tiberium Wars)

The Venom is the Brotherhood's primary air fighter in Third Tiberium War, a successor to Harpy helicopters of the Second Tiberium War. Similarly to the Orca Gunship it uses the VTOL technology, albeit more advanced. Its primary role is recon and harassment assignments, as it's extremely fast, but armed only with a single chaingun (upgradeable to a laser cannon based on Obelisk technology).

The fighter posseses an extremely aerodynamic shape and two VTOL engines on articulate mounts on its sides. The pilot's cockpit is at the extreme front of the machine, allowing a large field of view, but also limiting his protection. It's chaingun (upgradeable with laser capacitors at the Tech Lab) is ideal for attacking infantry or harrassing armour, but the real role of the Venom is scouting out targets and providing targeting data for the beam artillery units operating in the field and allowing them to bounce their beams off of mirrors the Venom carries on it's underside, thus allowing them to strike targets otherwise immune to their damage.

Another function of the Venom is deception - it can be equipped with signature generators, that interfere with the opponent's radar, fooling him into considering a few Venoms a whole army, thus making him scatter his forces.

However, despite its advantages, the Venom is also very, very fragile and can be easily shot down by anti-air weaponry of any kind.