Aircraft (Tiberium)

Aircraft are flying vehicles used for combat, transport, or utility purposes. The first planes were made in the early twentieth century, and first saw combat in the Second World War. Typically less armored than ground vehicles, they are immune to most enemy fire when airborne, but units that are capable of anti-aircraft fire are easily capable of shooting them down. It is where aircraft technology development has taken a radically different path...

Second World War
See: Aircraft (Red Alert)

GDI Air Force
During the First Tiberium War, GDI use ORCA Assault Craft, a lightly armored VTOL that possessed Dragon TOW missile launchers as their main aircraft. In addition, GDI deployed a range of support aircraft, including A-10 armed it with napalm bombs that can blanket area targets such as troop concentrations or fortification clusters with an intense firestorm, giving Nod an ironic taste of their highly-inflammable medicine.

Nod Air Force
For aerial offense, Nod use overhauled Apache, now uses a powerful chaingun as a primary weapon. They also utilized civilian Cargo plane to deliver vehicles onto the battlefield

Both sides also utilized CH-47 Chinook helicopters and C-130 to transport personnel during the war.

GDI Air Force


GDI continued Orca development apace after the First Tiberium War, falling partially under the auspices of Project Orca AD02/337. , resulting in many variants of Orca aircraft during second war. Many of the new Orcas used articulating turbofans and eschewed wings like the ORCA Assault Craft. The Orcas, like other contemporary aircraft, were disabled by ion storms.


 * The Orca Fighter is the successor to ORCA Assault Craft, with the armor is upgraded and the craft is armed with Hellfire missiles, which are effective only at against immobile or slow-moving, light-armored vehicles.
 * The Orca Bomber is a Orca aircraft designed to carpet bombardment with large payload of high explosive bombs and in group of three can cripple any structure (or at least significantly damage it) and moderately effective at destroying vehicles and infantry.
 * The Orca Carrya is designed to carry vehicles across the battlefield, ignoring the restrictions of terrain, Tiberium or, in some cases, enemy defenses.
 * CH-47 Chinook and C-130 gave way to the Orca Dropship and Orca Transport, which capable of transporting large amounts of soldiers, mechs and other equipment at long distances.
 * GDI Jump jet infantry Divisions are not technically aircrafts but can give the enemy considerable headache in large groups.

Nod Air Force



 * Use technology plundered from the alien artifact known as the Tacitus, Kane create Banshee, a next generation heavy attack fighter/bomber aircraft mounts powerful rapid fire plasma cannons, with optimized for use against vehicles
 * Harpy are a derivative version of the AH-64 Apaches and were been developed as their predecessors had grown inferior in light of the Global Defense Initiative's newly developed Orca Fighters as well as increasing local anti-air capability.

GDI Air Force
The dominance enjoyed by Orca's in GDI's aerial arsenal disappeared after the Second Tiberium War. Fixed-wing aircraft took over the air superiority, tactical bomber, and airlift roles. The heavy close air support role was given to a helicopter. The Orca retrenched into the light scout and attack role.


 * The A-15 Orca is the third major variant of the Orca Aircraft, which are effective against vehicles and buildings and can upgrade to launch sensor pods that will reveal everything within a certain radius. They are however are sitting ducks for any aircraft with air to air capability.
 * ZOCOM employed their own model of Orca designed that outfitted with Sonic Grenade launchers, which cause powerful area-of-effect damage. They cost as much as Firehawks however and are mostly used for carpet bombing, as the sonic grenades are unsuitable for surgical strikes into enemy territory.
 * Firehawk can shoot down aircraft with Rattlesnake missiles or switch to Hellcat bombs to destroy building. It's great at taking out even Scrin aircraft, second only to the Slingshot AA Platform.
 * Orca Carryall was replace with multipurpose VTOL aircraft [[V-35 Ox, primarily used for ferrying squads of infantry and smaller vehicles but cannot carry any of GDI's heaviest vehicles.
 * Orca Strike Craft is a tactical bomber which do moderate damage against buildings and light damage against vehicles.
 * Hammerhead is a conventional helicopter thet does not need to reload, making them effective Anti Surface units. It also has gunports that allow infantrymen transported inside to fire at enemies within range.
 * Supersonic fighter are triangular aircraft capable of wiping out enemy aircraft by flying in from high altitude, generating a sonic boom shockwave that heavily damages and destroys most aircraft within the vicinity
 * Their Aircraft Carriers are equipped with one launch deck for deploying fully armed Firehawk strike fighter and four VTOL landing pads for Orca Gunship.

GDI also have Ironside, a large experimental aircraft use a troop transport, but was destroyed by a Nod Black Hand strike force sent to capture Dr. Alphonse Giraud, thus abruptly and prematurely terminating the project.

Nod Air Force



 * Venom Patrol Crafts are Nod primary air fighter. They are relatively cheap to produce compared to planes of other factions, but had lower armour and it's firepower ineffective/nearly useless against armoured vehicles and buildings without upgrade. They however can detects stealth unit and provide additional range for Beam cannons via mirrors.
 * Vertigo are bomber that can destroying large structures and vehicles located deep within enemy bases, thanks to its stealth capabilities.
 * In a twist of irony, Nod adopted the Orca Carryall's design, creating their own version of Carryall to transport infantry and smaller vehicles in the battlefield.
 * Armageddon are heavy bomber relies on its sheer speed to evade damage from GDI anti-air defenses and deploying a variety of Nod special weapons, including land mines, Tiberium vapor bombs and liquid tiberium sprayers to seed a tiberium patch.

Scrin Air Force
While Scrin ground troops are very capable, air power seems to be their true strength. Their main construction vehicle are Drone Ships, which are literally flying MCVs. Maneuverable Stormriders are the aerial rivals of Firehawks but with the added bonus of infinite munitions, while Devastator Warships have ravaged nearly all of the Blue Zones with deadly plasma artillery weapons and enormous Planetary Assault Carriers - flying aircraft carriers - are able to project massive amounts of firepower via small drone fighters and miniature Ion storms. Their rarely-encountered Motherships can level cities in a single shot of their main weapon, and are responsible for the destruction of Berne, Switzerland.