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The Firebat - how would it be used?
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06-02-2023, 12:55 AM
Cobra Agent 66
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I got the 25th one recently, and while I never had it as a kid, it's become my favorite Cobra air vehicle. I guess it just never "clicked" until I actually had one... but I gotta wonder, how would it be used?
Forgetting the cartoons, where everyone flew everything and everyone had the same rifle and Mutt could fly a space shuttle, mostly going by the File Cards and toy schematics and maybe the comics...
The GI Joe Fandom page shows that it has a 7.62mm minigun, which would make it good for strafing infantry and maybe shooting up unarmored vehicles, but that's not suitable for air combat. They also list the inventory as 4 "air mines" and 2 500 lb bombs, so maybe "air denial" weapons, and 2 nice bombs for destroying hard targets, maybe tanks depending on the type of bomb.
But the 25th blueprint sheet shows two 25mm coaxial firing cannons. So, yeah, on an aircraft this size, that would definitely be suitable for dogfighting jets and shooting helicopters out of the sky. But it shows 6 bombs rather than 2 bombs and 4 missiles.
So, yeah, I'm overthinking it, but would this fast, relatively unarmored, nimble crotch rocket be used primarily for air combat, ground support, or a combination of both?
Also, while it can be launched vertically from a Terrordrome, the artwork on the 25th shows them lined up in a hangar, so I'm guessing it can take off vertically from any location, and just rolled around?
Seems like, if they had enough of these, Cobra could retire the FANG and Rattler. They could strafe infantry, bust tanks and bunkers, and even fight G.I. Joe's jets in sheer numbers (think: TIE Fighters swarming superior X-Wings).
Yeah, it's late and I'm bored...
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