the Tigerhawk

An answer of sorts to Cobra's Firebat 'crotch rocket' micro-jets, the Tigerhawk is a similarly designed GI Joe vehicle. This one-man aircraft primarily consists of a jet engine, folding wings (as if it weren't already compact enough), and a cockpit barely large enough for the pilot.

Oh, and its weapons, of course. Furthermore, the Tigerhawk was available to the GI Joe team in two camouflaged color schemes, depending on the mission profile they were used for: gray and tan. The Tigerhawk is equipped with the following vehicular characteristics:

Bombs: on the bottom of the Tigerhawk, on each side of the cockpit, are bomb mounts. The Tigerhawk can drop one of these at a time to inflict rank value 40 Slashing (fragmentary) damage on whatever lies below, raised by +1 RS if both are used simultaneously.

Communications Array: the Tigerhawk is equipped with an extremely powerful, gigahertz-frequency, frequency-wobbler radio system. This makes for rank value 30 communications power (with a 500 mile range), that features signal encryption of like value.

Flight: its primary function, the Tigerhawk is an aircraft. This vehicle is designed to fly - and to fly fast! About half of it is engine, while the rest is wing surfaces. This allows the Tigerhawk to reach speeds just shy of the speed of sound (681.81 MPH, or rank value 150 flight).

Missile Launchers: the bottom edges of the Tigerhawk's wings are equipped with missile launchers, each of which carries two projectiles. These can be fired one at a time or all at once, adding a +1 RS to the below damage for each doubling of mini-missiles launched:

Radar Array: the Tigerhawk depends on both passive and active radar systems to pinpoint the movement of aircraft (friendly and otherwise) in the air. When fully active, its radar can detect targets with rank value 20 ability, functioning within a 100 mile range.

Twinned Machine Guns: the Tigerhawk has two twinned machine guns, one on each side of the cockpit. They can fire a short burst of rounds to inflict rank value 30 Piercing damage, or they may be fired continuously to inflict rank value 40 Piercing damage.

Extra Goodies:

GI Joe directories featuring a version of the Tigerhawk:

Note that there were two variations on the Tigerhawk released in 2004.

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