The Assault Airship is a large aerial vehicle used as an assault ship by the US military. It was capable of carrying a large quantity of cargo, supplies, vehicles and troops on to the battlefield, possessing a sizeable internal cargo hold that is comparable to terrestrial vessels such aircraft carriers.
The airships had launch bays to deploy drop pods during an assault, allowing it to quickly drop in a small fire team of troops on the battlefield. These pods were launched from a lower level of the airship.
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They are first seen during the mission "Induction", when South Korea was under attack by North Korea. In response, the U.S. military began an assault on Seoul to retake the city and multiple airships were deployed to support the counter-offensive. Many of these transports were shot down during the battle, but they were able to drop most of their occupants on to the battlefield. The airships are later seen at the start of a cutscene in the mission "Throttle" where these ships are stationed at a U.S. Airbase, preparing for an invasion of New Baghdad, Iraq. They can also be briefly seen in the intro cutscene for the mission Terminus when the protagonists briefly return to the airbase, where the wreckage of some crashed airships can be seen.
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