Airstrip (Tiberian Dawn)



In the First Tiberium War, the Brotherhood of Nod relied on supplies delivered by airplanes to provide their forward bases with vehicles. The place where they landed was called an Airfield, or Airstrip, although no plane actually landed, simply remaining for long enough and slowing down sufficiently to effect a delivery of a vehicle.

Before the Second Tiberium War, Nod did not have actual War Factories on the battlefield, instead having their units flown in by a large cargo plane from a remote production facility. (most likely bribed through production fees). Once the commander had requested a unit, a signal was sent and the plane loaded with the specific unit. When the cargo plane arrived at the Airstrip it dropped off the unit there and returned to its base. Since only transporting one unit at a time was a very inefficient concept, Nod eventually abandoned the Airstrip system and switched to local war factories like GDI. At this point, they were powerful enough, and had the logistics available to do this kind of on-site processing.



History
During the First Tiberium War Nod did not have the sufficient engineering equipment to produce machines on the spot. They instead had them made or purchased at secret locations and had a Cargo Plane fly them to Airfields. The drawback was that it was possible for astute GDI commanders to trace Nod bases through the use of Cargo Plane flyovers, and GDI air supremacy meant that many a cargo plane was lost to superior Orca Fighters.

By the Second Tiberium War Nod had gained enough resources to build War Factories and abandoned Airfields.

Units Delivered
The Airstrip was known to aquire the following units:
 * Nod Buggys
 * Recon Bikes
 * Light Tanks
 * Artilleries
 * Tiberium Harvester (required Tiberium Refinery)
 * Flame Tanks (required Communications Center)
 * Stealth Tanks (required Communications Center)
 * SSM Launcher (required Obelisk of Light)
 * MCV (required Temple of Nod)