Act of Aggression/Chimera Units

Units deployed by the Chimera task force are extremely powerful and versatile. Most of their units pull double-duty in some way, and can often serve in roles outside their designated one. Unlike the US Army, which will usually combine unit types, Chimera players can often afford to use one or two units for everything. En masse, Chimera's units are all but unstoppable. Chimera also has far more stealth options than the US Army does.

Chimera's units are also extremely expensive, oftentimes requiring aluminum in addition to credits. Unlike the US Army, Chimera depends greatly on aluminum to both expand the base and to produce their most powerful units. Denying Chimera their aluminum fields is key to stopping them from building momentum.

Infantry

FÉLIN

Role	Anti-infantry
HP	7
Cost	250
Produced By	Barracks
Upgrades	CQC Training, Breaching Training
Special Notes	Can capture prisoners, can enter neutral buildings

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FÉLIN (Fantassin à Équipement et Liaisons Intégrés, or Integrated Infantryman Equipment and Communications) is a French infantry combat system and is the main infantry unit of Chimera. The FÉLIN is equipped with a rifle that makes them extremely dangerous at longer ranges than their US and Cartel counterparts. While their short range abilities are not as strong, they can receive their CQC Training upgrade at the Barracks to improve this.

FÉLINs are also capable of capturing enemy structures. Capturing enemy structures is often faster than destroying them, and gives the player something to sell afterwards. Refineries in particular are easy capture targets, as they are often far away from defences and store a lot of resources.

SAS

Role	Multirole sniper
HP	4
Cost	650
Produced By	Barracks
Upgrades	DU Rounds, Breaching Training
Special Notes	Can capture prisoners, can enter neutral buildings

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The British SAS are snipers that serve many roles in the Chimera task force.

Known for their versatility, the SAS easily matches the US Army Sniper and Cartel Jackal in effectiveness, ignoring cover bonuses and eliminating infantry. While they lack range/stealth and cannot target fixed-wing aircraft, they can deal heavy damage to ground vehicles (especially with DU Rounds) and helicopters. In large groups, they can easily deny many vehicular assaults. Their slow fire rate and high cost however leaves much to be desired.

Grenadier

Role	Artillery infantry
HP	18
Cost	400  200
Produced By	Barracks
Upgrades	NLOS System

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Chimera's fire support team of choice, Grenadiers launch their incendiary munitions in four-round bursts, and can be garrisoned in buildings, but are rather defenseless in close quarters and can't reach targets beyond their short sight range.

With the NLOS System upgrade, Grenadiers gain a substantial boost to their accuracy, range and can perform indirect fire. Nevertheless, they often require support to deliver maximum impact.

Exosoldier

Role	Special forces
HP	14
Cost	250  400
Produced By	Barracks
Upgrades	Autorepair, Intelligent Suspension, Breaching Training
Special Notes	Can capture prisoners, can enter neutral buildings

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Chimera's answer to the US Delta Force and Cartel Vanguard is the Exosoldier. Exemplifying the versatility and flexibility of Chimera, the Exosoldier is equipped with a heavy machine gun that causes considerable damage to both infantry and vehicles. Their primary weakness is their lack of range (which is compensated by their fast movement speed) and their relatively high cost.

Their autorepair upgrade lets them heal themselves away from Medical Namers, while their intelligent suspension upgrade lets them outrun most vehicles. Combined with the natural ability of all infantry to scale cliffs, the Exosoldier is a highly dangerous adversary when inserted behind enemy lines.

Vehicles

Recon UGV

Role	Reconnaissance, resource location
HP	4
Cost	1000
Produced By	Headquarters
Upgrades	Autorepair
Special Notes	Can locate resource fields and detect stealth units.

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This Metal Storm variant is specifically designed for initial scouting on enemy positions and is the only Chimera unit that can locate resources. Other units can scout, but resource fields will remain invisible.

The Recon UGV lacks durability and range, but is perhaps the cheapest of them all, and its powerful grenade launcher packs a huge punch. It can easily eliminate the Cartel's unarmed Recon K-MAX and can shred the American Recon Team, though their matchup becomes risky one the American Recon Team is upgraded.

Kodiak

Role	Base construction
Produced By	Headquarters
Upgrades	Engineer Field Kit
Special Notes	Not directly controlled by the player.

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The Kodiak AEV3 is a construction unit automatically deployed from the HQ to construct buildings. Once the HQ receives an order to build, it begins deducting resources from the player's stockpiles. Once the resources are spent, the Kodiak is deployed and will automatically drive to the structure's site and build it in a few seconds.

After researching both the SHIELD and SWORD Protocols, the Kodiak can be upgraded with the Engineer Field Kit, which grants it stealth and a grenade launcher for defense. Kodiaks will only use the grenade launcher if they've been spotted or are already under fire.

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  With Engineer Field Kit

Crusher

Role	Resource ferry
HP	5
Cost	350
Produced By	Refinery
Upgrades	Supply Field Kit
Special Notes	Carries 300 units of resources.

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While neither the fastest nor the heaviest of the resource ferries, the Crusher is nonetheless a good resource carrier. Able to carry 300 units of resources, the Crusher drone is middle of the road in terms of resource carriers.

Unlike resource gatherers from other games, the carrier does not actively mine the resources: the refinery does. Building a massive fleet of Crushers does not guarantee the player large amounts of resources.

Nonetheless, having three to four Crushers per refinery is generally a good idea, as Chimera refineries can be upgraded to extract from two resource nodes at once. This increased resource gain is exclusive to Chimera, making the double refinery strategy unnecessary.

The Crusher is also unique in that it can be equipped with a machine gun with which to defend itself. This upgrade also increases their HP from 5 to 8. Although like all resource units they can be returned to base and sold when resources run dry, Chimera players have the option instead to include Crushers as part of their attacking force. As Chimera players build large quantities of Crushers throughout the game, they can typically overwhelm enemy infantry, or act as a home guard while your real task force does its work. As their machine gun is inadequate against armour, however, they are little more than cannon fodder for heavily armoured tanks.

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  With oil

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  With aluminum

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  With rare earth

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  With Supply Field Kit

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  With Supply Field Kit and oil

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  With Supply Field Kit and aluminum

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  With Supply Field Kit and rare earth

Puma

Role	Light tank, anti helicopter
HP	8
Cost	1100
Produced By	SPEAR Vehicles Bay
Upgrades	Passenger Accommodation, SPIKE-LR Missiles

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The German Schützenpanzer Puma is equipped with an autocannon that can easily defeat enemy infantry and deal considerable damage to helicopters, though its short range, low health and high cost often limit its utility.

The Passenger Accommodation upgrade increases Puma's health and grants it shares infantry transport abilities. The Namer is the superior transport, with a higher capacity, much more health, limited defense against missiles and a healing aura, but the Puma is better at dealing direct damage as its autocannon is more destructive than the Namer's machine gun.

Later on the Puma's primary purpose shifts from being an offensive unit to a support one. Once upgraded with Spike-LR missiles, the Puma is most at home transporting infantry and firing missiles into the fray from long range.

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  With SPIKE-LR Missiles.

Pantsir

Role	Anti aircraft
HP	15
Cost	1700
Produced By	SPEAR Vehicles Bay
Upgrades	57E6-E Missiles

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The Pantsir is an anti-aircraft unit employed by Chimera. The Pantsir is equipped with a pair of autocannons not unlike those found on the Puma, though it can also engage enemy missiles.

Another showcase of Chimera's versatility, the Pantsir is capable of engaging ground targets and air targets with equal effectiveness. Its 57E6-E Missile upgrade adds dual-purpose missiles to its arsenal, allowing it to attack both enemy aircraft and enemy tanks at range. While it can be replaced by other units that gain anti-aircraft abilities later, Pantsirs remain effective even in the late game for their missile defense abilities.

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  With 57E6-E Missiles. The autocannons remain in between the launchers.

Rhino

Role	Artillery
HP	10
Cost	2500
Produced By	SPEAR Vehicles Bay
Upgrades	Weapon Tracking Radar, V-LAP Shells

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This fragile South African artillery lacks the brawn of most artillery units, but is rather versatile. Its exceptional mobility stems from its high speed, rate of fire, and the ability to attack on the move, which is further augmented by V-LAP shells. It also excels at performing counter-battery fire with the Weapon Tracking Radar upgrade, which reveals enemy artillery units for itself within its massive detection range for itself other units to hit.

As with all artillery units, Rhinos are best at attacking enemy structures from range, but can find use in almost any situation.

Namer

Role	Medical vehicle, transport
HP	40
Cost	800  200
Produced By	Support Bay
Upgrades	Medical Namer, Iron Fist
Special Notes	Transports ten infantry.

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The Israeli Nagmesh Merkava, shortened to the Namer, is the premier infantry ground transport. It is able to transport 10 infantry, defend itself with a light machine gun, and can be upgraded to heal infantry around it. The Iron Fist APS provides limited protection against enemy missiles.

As a transport vehicle, the Namer is support-oriented due to its healing and transport capabilities meshing well with its very high health, while the Puma excels at providing short-ranged firepower. Nevertheless, both can be used to great effect for inserting infantry units anywhere, especially when combined with the Valor.

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  With Medical Namer upgrade

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  With Iron Fist upgrade

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  Fully upgraded

Metal Storm

Role	Harassment
HP	10
Cost	400
Produced By	Support Bay
Upgrades	Autorepair, Intelligent Suspension
Special Notes	Stealthed.

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An Australian stealthed drone equipped with four grenade launchers, the Metal Storm is primarily a harassment or ambush unit. As with many stealth units, it receives a damage bonus when it breaks stealth to fire. Much like the Recon UGV, the unit's sheer destructive power can even hit helicopters, being chiefly limited by its low range.

While not entirely necessary to the Chimera's strategy, Metal Storms are highly effective at attacking poorly defended enemy positions and can take them by surprise. The Autorepair ability adds to the effectiveness of this strategy, allowing them to repair themselves without retreating to friendly territory. The Intelligent Suspension upgrade further emphasizes this by improving their speed by a considerable margin. Finally, as the Metal Storm is unmanned, it will never spawn a pilot that the enemy can capture if it is destroyed.

As a stealth unit, Metal Storms are also decent scouts, though Chimera has a better one - the Ninja.

ADS

Role	Support (debuffer)
HP	5
Cost	500  250
Produced By	Support Bay
Upgrades	Improved ADS

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The American-developed ADS isn't able to attack, but instead can blind and slow all enemy units within its AOE by dramatically reducing their FOV and movement speed. By default it affects infantry, but can be upgraded to affect all ground targets and helicopters.

Players will typically not need a large number of these units, but including a few of them with an attacking force can help blind the units that are closest to the fight, preventing them from spotting for artillery. Their range is short and the unit is fragile, so keep it protected.

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  With Improved ADS

Fennek

Role	Stealth transport
HP	8
Cost	500  250
Produced By	SWORD Vehicle Bay
Upgrades	Mast-Mounted Sight, Stinger Missiles
Special Notes	Fires smoke grenades. Stealthed. Carries four infantry units.

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A stealthed ground transport, the German Fennek is capable of carrying four infantry units behind enemy lines. Its automatic grenade launcher is not particularly powerful, but when upgraded it gains anti aircraft missiles that help against helicopters - particularly useful as Chimera does not have a dedicated anti aircraft infantry unit. When combined with Metal Storms, Fenneks can insert infantry to support the Metal Storms before withdrawing. Its smoke grenades can help infantry either close the gap with opponents or withdraw from the battle.

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  With Stinger missiles

Terminator

Role	Main Battle Tank
HP	40
Cost	1000
Produced By	SWORD Vehicle Bay
Upgrades	Igla Missiles, Ataka Missiles, AGS-30

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Versatility incarnate, the Terminator is one of the strongest units in the game and competes with the M1A2 Abrams as a frontline fighter. While its health is considerably stronger than that of the Abrams until the Abrams applies TUSK, the Terminator's firepower lags behind the Abrams until it receives upgrades. The Igla Missiles upgrade let it attack aircraft while the Ataka Missiles upgrade let it take on the strongest enemy vehicles. Finally, the AGS-30 automatic grenade launcher upgrade rounds out the Terminator with a powerful close-quarters anti-infantry weapon that can also damage structures. The grenade launcher requires researching both the Ataka and Igla missiles.

Out of all the units in the game, the Terminator is easily the most versatile. A Chimera player who amasses a large number of these units can easily become unstoppable, as Terminators become equally effective against infantry, helicopters, and tanks.

The Terminator's only weakness is its high aluminum cost. While Chimera can produce Aluminum through SynTech Labs, their power drain and credit cost are also much higher. The only two Chimera structures that generate power eat large amounts of aluminum and directly compete with Terminator production, so it takes quite a bit of setup before they become fully sustainable. Solely denying Chimera aluminum, however, is not enough to defeat them, as they can still field other units without it.

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  With Ataka Missiles

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  With Igla Missiles

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  With Ataka and Igla Missiles

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  With AGS-30 (fully upgraded)

Buratino

Role	Rocket artillery
HP	35
Cost	750  750  250
Produced By	SWORD Vehicle Bay
Upgrades	NURS Rockets

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The Russian TOS-1 Buratino, nicknamed by some as the "Burrito", is the Chimera's rocket artillery of choice. The Buratino fires a salvo of incendiary rockets that cause significant damage. The rockets will also set their impact sites ablaze, causing additional damage to units that pass through it. Extremely costly and the only Chimera unit requiring all three resources, Buratinos must be protected with care.

Antey-2500

Role	Anti-aircraft, anti-super weapon
HP	20
Cost	1000  500
Produced By	Anti-Ballistic Center
Upgrades	Advanced Software, Launchers Expansion
Special Notes	Detects stealthed aircraft.

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A must-have unit, the Antey-2500 protects the region surrounding it from incoming superweapons. Like the American Patriot and the Cartel's Skyguard turret, the Antey-2500 must be manually loaded with anti-superweapon missiles in order for it to be effective. Additionally, it can only intercept superweapons when stationary.

Like its American and Cartel counterparts, the Antey is also effective at engaging enemy aircraft, and will not expend its anti-superweapon missiles doing so. Though its sight range is rather limited, its engagement range against enemy aircraft is extremely impressive, and can lock down large portions of the map from bombers.

Chimera pays more overall for anti-superweapon coverage, as the Anti-Ballistic Center (which costs 3 electricity as opposed to its other equivalents) must be built first before any Anteys can be used, and they have a lower capacity of 2 by default. However, Chimera has several advantages to offset the increased cost. Since Anteys are mobile units, with proper micromanagement they can be repositioned to protect mobile forces or to cover different sections of a base, and cannot be shut down by a power shortage. Furthermore, while their interceptor missiles are rather expensive, they only cost credits to refill.

The Antey can be upgraded with Advanced Softwares to increase its range, and Launchers Expansion which allows it to hold four anti-superweapon missiles.

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  While moving

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  Moving, with Launchers Expansion

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  Stationary, with Launchers Expansion

Helicopters

Ninja

Role	Scout helicopter, anti-aircraft
HP	10
Cost	600  300
Produced By	Support Bay
Upgrades	Type 91 Missiles
Special Notes	Stealthed. Can detect stealthed units.

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The Japanese OH-1, known in-game as the Ninja, is an extremely powerful and versatile stealth recon helicopter. It is the only unit that is both stealthed and able to spot other stealthed units. This makes it particularly useful as an artillery spotter, especially for the Buratino's incendiary rockets.

When granted the Type 91 Missile upgrade, the Ninja helicopter gets a significant bite in the form of an anti-aircraft attack. As with all stealth units, it gains an attack bonus when it drops its stealth to fire. This lets it easily ambush slower, more heavily armoured helicopters like the Cartel's SuperHind.

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  With Type 91 Missiles

Tigre

Role	Attack helicopter
HP	15
Cost	2500
Produced By	Helipad
Upgrades	Mast-Mounted Sight, Mistral Missiles, TRIGAT-LR Missiles

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The Eurocopter Tiger, referred to in France and Spain as the Tigre, is a highly flexible attack helicopter similar to the American Guardian. It is initially equipped with incendiary rockets and an autocannon, making it effective against structures and small groups of infantry. It also comes with flares to divert enemy missiles from itself.

Once upgraded, however, the Tigre easily matches the Terminator for versatility despite costing only credits. While not as durable as the Terminator or even the Guardian, the Tigre's TRIGAT-LR Missile upgrades give it the power to punch through enemy armor while the Mistral Missiles upgrade give it an edge against enemy helicopters and jets.

The Mast-Mounted Sight upgrade is particularly helpful to the Tigre once it has its TRIGAT-LR and Mistral Missiles upgrades, as this allows it to fire the missiles indirectly. Unlike the Terminator, the Tigre can be upgraded to spot stealthed enemies.

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  With Mistral Missiles

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  With TRIGAT-LR Missiles

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  Fully upgraded

Valor

Role	Transport helicopter
HP	20
Cost	1000  500
Produced By	Helipad
Upgrades	Stinger Missiles, Hellfire Missiles
Special Notes	Can carry vehicles and infantry. Has 10 transport slots.

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One of two heavy-lift helicopters in the game, the Valor is capable of carrying infantry and vehicles to the front lines, or behind enemy lines. It comes with slow-firing, inaccurate rocket pods by default that engage at extreme range, and can be equipped with anti-tank/aircraft missiles to target specific types of threats, as well as flares to redirect missiles. The rockets can be used to clear the Valor's landing zone, or to support your main force from afar once it has dropped off its reinforcements. The Valor is cheaper than the American Osprey and Cartel Superhind in credits, but requires some aluminum to field.

Remember that vehicles like the Namer can transport infantry units, and Namers can fit into Valors. This nested transport method with transports carrying transports can let you insert a massive army of Exosoldiers and SAS units in the back of an enemy base, complete with healing abilities. Doing this with Pumas or Fenneks give the landing force some additional firepower instead.

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  With Hellfire Missiles

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  With Stinger Missiles

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  Fully upgraded

Aircraft

Corax

Role	Scout aircraft
HP	15
Cost	1000
Produced By	Air Control Center
Special Notes	Stealthed. Unarmed.

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A dedicated recon aircraft, the Corax is designed to fly into and observe your opponent. Unlike other games, aircraft are called in from off-screen. Once ordered to enter the battle zone, the Corax will fly in along the course you set for it. It will circle the area specified by the player until it runs out of fuel, and will then automatically withdraw. As with all other fixed-wing aircraft, it will never spawn a pilot when destroyed.

The Corax is unarmed, but can detect enemy stealth units, and is particularly difficult to take down earlier on due to its countermeasures easily throwing off any missiles. However, large amounts of dedicated anti-air units can overwhelm it easily, and as such careful deployment is often necessary to maximize its capabilities.

PAK FA

Role	Air superiority fighter
HP	25
Cost	2800  250
Produced By	Air Control Center
Upgrades	SPECTRA, X-38 Stealth Missiles
Special Notes	Stealthed.

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The Sukhoi PAK FA is another sign of Chimera's versatility. Unlike other games where aircraft can fly and hover, all aircraft are instead called in from off-map. The nEUROn will enter the combat zone, fly to where the player has clicked, and circle the area. It will automatically engage enemy aircraft when they approach. As with all other fixed-wing aircraft, it will never spawn a pilot when destroyed.

On its own, the PAK FA is an air superiority fighter similar to the American Raptor and Cartel Berkut. It can later be upgraded with air-to-ground missiles that fire slowly and attack at extreme range without breaking stealth to serve as a ground attack aircraft. Despite its versatility, PAK FAs must still be used well as it isn't the best at both roles and is rather expensive.

nEUROn

Role	Bomber
HP	10
Cost	750  500
Produced By	Air Control Center
Upgrades	MICA Missiles
Special Notes	Stealthed.

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The nEUROn is a drone that is equipped with a series of bombs it can drop of enemies. Unlike other games where aircraft can fly and hover, all aircraft are instead called in from off-map. The nEUROn will enter the combat zone, fly to where the player has clicked, and drop its bombs there. It will then attempt to withdraw. As with all other fixed-wing aircraft, it will never spawn a pilot when destroyed.

Extremely cheap for an aircraft, the nEUROn is overall the better choice in attacking enemy vehicles than the PAK FA due to having bombs. Unlike the Cartel Valkyrie and American B-2 Spirit, the nEUROn drops its payload in in a large circle around the target area, rather than a predictable, straight line. Its main weakness is that it lacks the punch said bombers have, as well as speed and durability which dramatically limits its utility.

What the nEUROn lacks in firepower, it makes up for in defense. Once upgraded, the nEUROn gains air-to-air missiles to engage enemy aircraft. While most air superiority fighters will get the drop on and destroy the nEUROn, the missiles can still cause considerable damage if their targets aren't taken down outright. Engaging groups of nEUROns with air superiority fighters can result in a few nasty surprises.