"We rule the skies!"

Weapons: x3 Autocannons, Barrel Bombs
Armor: Heavy
Speed: Slow
Cost: $2500
Purpose: Assault, Transport
Requires: Motorpool, Airfield, Scrapyard
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Veteran Upgrades:
-Improvised armor (+25% health)
-Engine tuneup (+25% speed)

Elite Upgrades:
-Repair toolkit (self-repair)
-Larger caliber guns (+25% damage)
-Blue Tiberium munitions (+50% effective vs infantry, vehicles, and structures)
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"Hey, y'know what we could use this heavy transport helicopter for? Anything but transport. The Chinook has a modest operational history throughout the First Tiberian War, utilized by both GDI and Nod to transport troops and hardware across the battlefields. However the mechanists were apparently under the mutual agreement to not use it for such purposes, perhaps due to how risky aerial transportation was when you take into account of the near constant ion storms and the literal alien warships flying within our atmosphere. So the next best use for it was as a flying weapons platform.

Known as the Thundercloud, this jury rigged mod is armed with no less than three autocannons that will shred light armor units and deal substantial damage to heavier ones. It also carries a payload of barrel bombs with which to demolish structures and burn anything directly beneath it. As if that wasn't enough firepower it has four gunports, two on each side, from where passengers can fire out from so it's transport capability is not completely underutilized. Additional armor has been bolted on including the absolute brain dead decision to cover up the glass cockpit, though I heard they installed exterior cameras to compensate. It's twin rotor engines were never designed to handle all this combined weight however, so its slow as balls and not expected to escape anti-air fire that easily.

The Thundercloud was supposedly one of the rarest and most complex machines around, yet the Scavengers and even the Guardians are able to operate a few of them but only the Warriors are able to make full use of it given their better understanding of it as a combat transport and bomber."

- The Safekeeper, entry #133

Notes:
-Can carry 4 passengers (size limit 2)
-Explodes violently upon destruction
-Force fire on the ground to have it constantly drop bombs over the area
-Passengers can fire out
-Cannot be pilot sniped
-Immune to omni crush
-Original voxel by HoLY_CoMM@nDo