the Mamba

Cobra's Mamba is a light combat helicopter with a low vertical profile, equipped with two counter-rotating rotors. This revolutionary feature allows it unprecedented control sensitivity, which helps to make up for the fact that its armor is relatively light, overall.

Perhaps the Mamba's most notable feature are its three cockpits. One belongs to the vehicle's pilot, of course, while the other two consist of detachable pods. The heavily armed MOLTs can fight on their own or while attached to the Mamba, which has these characterisics:

Handling RV 30

Velocity RV 30

Durability RV 20

Protection RV 10

Bombs: these explosives can be dropped on a hapless foe from above, and though they cannot otherwise be targeted, these stop and drop devices inflict rank value 40 Slashing (fragmentary) damage each. While unguided, they are nonetheless a powerful tool for the Gyro-Vipers.

Bunker Buster: equipped beneath its cockpit, the Mamba has one heavy duty, bunker-busting bomb. This powerful, guided explosive will home in on its predetermined target, typically a fortified installation of some sort, and inflict the devastating damage described below:

Handling RV 20

Velocity RV 50

Durability RV 20

Damage RV 40 Armor Piercing Slashing (fragmentary)

Communications Array: Mambas are equipped with Cobra-built radio transceivers, which generally ignore conventional communications standards. They work with rank value 20 ability, having like signal encryption and range, which is a maximum of 100 miles at a high altitude.

Diablo Missiles: the Mamba has four Diablo air-to-air, supersonic missiles equipped, allowing it to fight against any aircraft it may encounter. These projectiles inflict the listed damage, improved by +1 RS for each doubling of such that strike their target:

Handling RV 20

Velocity RV 200

Durability RV 20

Damage RV 30 Slashing (fragmentary)

Flight / Levitation: Cobra's Mamba can hover in place, as can most helicopters, or soar forward at two hundred ten miles per hour. It has these abilities at rank value 30, thanks to its Servo-Tox NT-58 turboshaft engine and Thrasher counter-rotating, layered-epoxy rotors.

FLIR: the Forward Looking, Infrared Radome unit on the front of the Cobra Mamba gives it unparalleled awareness of its surroundings. It can use radar to map long range targets with rank value 10 ability, within 25 miles, or closer foes with its infrared sensor suite.

SMASH: the Sensor System: Mamba Air Suppression and Heat-reduction array, spread throughout the vehicle, dampens the Mamba's noise and heat emissions, allowing it to approach much closer before being noticed. Its sound and heat output are capped at rank value 4.

MOLTs

The MOLTs, or Mamba Offensive Light Tactical assault pods, are mounted flanking the vehicle's primary cockpit. The pilot can fire their weapons when they're not occupied, greatly improving his or her offensive capability, but when piloted the MOLTs have these features:

Handling RV 10

Velocity RV 50

Durability RV 20

Protection RV 10

Communications Array: MOLTs are also equipped with Cobra-built radio transceivers, which ignore conventional communications standards as well. They work with rank value 20 ability, having like signal encryption and range, which is a maximum of 100 miles at a high altitude.

Flight: unlike the Mamba, its MOLTs are not equipped to levitate in place. They are propelled through the air through a short-range jet propulsion unit, which provides the flight speed listed above, for perhaps one hundred miles, depending on its occupants' weight.

Nemesis Mini-missiles: each MOLT is equipped with two of these projectiles. Though the overall damage they inflict is lower than the Mamba's Diablos, they are built to penetrate even a tank's armor, and behave in the following fashion:

Handling RV 10

Velocity RV 50

Durability RV 20

Damage RV 20 Armor Piercing Slashing (fragmentary)

Serpentor RRFs: the Mamba has two sets of these twinned 9mm, rapid rate of fire (RRF) machine guns, one under the cockpit of each MOLT. They inflict rank value 20 Piercing damage when firing a short burst, or rank value 30 Piercing damage when fired continuously.

Extra Goodies:

Cobra directories featuring a version of the Mamba:

1987

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