Helicopter

Helicoptors or gunships were vertical lift aircraft used by the Race during their The Race Invasion. They were particularly useful against partisans and human armor since the human soldiers often lacked the weapons to destroy these machines. A Race gunship wounded Rance Auerbach, an American cavalryman fighting in the Great Plains. However, Race gunships become more vulnerable as the war went on since human airplanes were able to down the slow moving machines much more easily than killercraft. After the war, the machines were used to supress uprisings and urban unrest in the areas of planet the Race controlled. The gunships were probably copied by the human powers as well, although the militaries of the human nations seemed to emphasize high speed fighters and bombers over gunships. During the second Chinese uprising in the 1960s, Soviet supplied anti-air rockets were able to effectively neutralize Race gunships in Beijing and other cities.