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There are many versions of helicopter Valkaries and they are each very good but this is my take on it along side my other Vendetta

Built by the Adeptus Mechanicus to remedy the issue of long loiter time, on call air support, the XVA-76 "Tornado" was concieved. Built upon the tried and true Valkarie/Vendetta body, it was fitted with a high efficency 4 bladed rotor while retaining the forward jet engine propulsion, to keep manufacturing simple the outer wing vertical thrust nozzles where removed and transplanted in the tail to act as a tail rotor for the craft. The Armament is extensive with a nose mounted Punisher Cannon, twin cheak mounted las cannons (the sensor arrays concentrated between the Jet engines on top) , and a larger iteration of the Hellstrike missle mounted on the ends of the stubby main wings.

During field testing with the only known prototype Tornado on a forested planet near the Forge World (undecided), an unforseen malfunction caused the craft to be lost deep in the forest and after much searching the Mechanicus abanoned the project and the data files buried deep in the data banks. Years later a battle erupted on the same planet against the forces of Chaos and the 91st Schrott Experimental Regiment was deployed. Their sole Vendetta at the time the "Sky Hammer" a ship wrigged with far more additional ordinace then what is standard (including a pair of extensivly exercised and blessed Havoc Launchers and a pair of Predator Lascannons on the cockpit sides). Located the Tornado during a sortie and the 91st decended upon the craft to find it reltivly intact. Using their skills the 91st put the Tornado back together and deployed it along side the Sky Hammer. Both craft earned at least 23 Armor kills and uncountable infantry kills between them in their first combat together. The Tornado is feared for its heavy thumping sound it makes as it flys along just before the weapons systems open up.

Note: the Punisher Cannon only is able to be used during apoc matchs and even then i've never used it as a vulture.

I LOVE IT ^^

Brilliant work mate, and the fluff is awesome too


LazzurusMan