Hovercraft

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Hovercraft
Unit
Affiliation	GDI, Nod
Role	Transport
Armament	N/A
Protection	Heavy
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In order to facilitate deployment of their forces in theatres of war, GDI extensively utilized hovercrafts. It is an amphibious vehicle or craft, designed to travel over land or water, supported by a cushion of slowly moving, low-pressure air, ejected downwards against the surface close below it and uses large, powerful propellers to skim over water and land with ease.

Contents 1 First Tiberium War 2 Post-TWII 2.1 GDI 2.2 Nod

[edit] First Tiberium War

In the First Tiberium War the LCAC hovercraft (shown in the photo) was the most popular choice when deploying ordnance and men and was capable of delivering MCVs and even Mammoth tanks to shores to enter combat.

First Tiberium War GDI hovercraft (second version)

[edit] Post-TWII

[edit] GDI

Following a period of inactivity during the Second Tiberium War, when they were replaced with Hover MLRS and amphibious APCs, the hovercrafts once again saw extensive use in the Third Tiberium War, as a heavily armored rapid deployment craft, which played an important role in the war against the Brotherhood of Nod, even transporting Mammoth 27 tanks, for example, during the GDI attack on Alexandria.

[edit] Nod

Similar in purpose to it's GDI counterpart, the Nod vessel has a higher carrying capacity than both the Carryall and the Ox Transport. It is designed to carry even very heavy units across long oceanic distances.

It is interesting to note that the vessel bares an uncanny similarity to rays; an order of cartilaginous fish related to sharks. Similar to the iconic Nod scorpion, many varieties of rays possess poisonous barbs on their tails.

A Nod Hovercraft unloading troops onto Australia, 2039

Concept art for the Nod hovercraftils.

v·d·e Global Defense Initiative First Tiberium War Arsenal

Infantry Minigunner • Rocket soldier • Grenadier • Engineer • GDI Officer • Commando Vehicles APC • M998 Humvee • Medium tank • Mobile construction vehicle • Harvester • M270 MLRS • Mammoth Mk. I Aircraft ORCA Assault Craft • YF-23 Black Widow • CH-47 Chinook • CH-46 Sea Knight • A-10 Thunderbolt II • C-130 Hercules • F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Vessels Aircraft carrier • Gunboat • Hovercraft Structures Buildings Construction yard • Tiberium refinery • Barracks • War factory • Communications center • Service depot • Power plant • Advanced communications center • Advanced power plant Aux. structures Tiberium silo • Guard tower • Advanced guard tower

v·d·e Global Defense Initiative Third Tiberium War Arsenal

Infantry Riflemen squad • Missile squad • Grenadier squad • Sniper team • Engineer • Zone Trooper • Zone Raider • Commando Vehicles Guardian APC/Mobile Repair Transport • Titan • Wolverine • CC-6 Pitbull ATV • MBT-6 Predator • Slingshot AA hovercraft • Shatterer/Zone Shatterer • Mobile Construction Vehicle • Surveyor • Harvester • Rig • Behemoth/Juggernaut Mk. III • Mammoth Mk. III • Mammoth Armed Reclamation Vehicle Aircraft Orca Gunship • Firehawk Fighter/Bomber • V-35 Ox • Orca Strike Craft • Hammerhead Assault Helicopter Vessels Aircraft carrier • Battleship • Hovercraft Structures Buildings Construction yard • Tiberium refinery • Barracks • War factory • Command post • Airfield • Armory • Technology center • Space command uplink • Reclamator hub Aux. structures Tiberium silo • Watchtower • Guardian cannon • AA Battery • Sonic emitter • Ion cannon control • Battle Base Other Pentagon • Philadelphia

v·d·e Brotherhood of Nod Third Tiberium War Arsenal

Infantry Militants (Nod) • Confessor Cabal (BH) • Militant rocket squad (all) • Fanatics (all) • Shadow Team (Nod/MoK) • Saboteur (all) • Tiberium trooper (MoK) • Black Hand (BH/Nod) • Commando (all) Vehicles Attack bike • Raider ATV • Reckoner Heavy APC • Scorpion MBT • Mobile construction vehicle • Emissary • Harvester • flame tank (Nod/BH) • Specter artillery • Beam Cannon ATV • Stealth tank (Nod/MoK) • Mantis drone (BH) • Purifier Warmech (BH) • Avatar Warmech (Nod/MoK) • Redeemer Aircraft Venom Patrol Craft • Vertigo Bomber • Carryall • Armageddon Bomber (The Black Hand doesn't use aircraft) Cybernetics Awakened • Enlightened (both are Marked of Kane exclusive) Vessels Battleship • Hovercraft Structures Buildings Construction yard • Power plant • Tiberium refinery • Hand of Nod • War factory • Operations center • Air tower • Secret Shrine • Tech lab • Tiberium chemical plant • Temple of Nod • Redeemer engineering facility • Air support tower Aux. structures Tiberium silo • Shredder turret • Laser turret • SAM turret • Obelisk of Light • Disruption tower • Voice of Kane