Its central compartment is capable of housing an entire infantry squad, with sufficient internal space to allow the squad to fire out of the Hammerhead. The Hammerhead is a large ground support aircraft that serves a dual role as both a long range infantry transport, and an anti-infantry gunship. The Hammerhead is a conventional attack helicopter: Based on transport designs dating back to the 20th century, and much like the Predator, is a prime example of GDI's trend of returning to old but extremely reliable technology.
It was a take on the dual-rotor design, sporting two contra-rotating primary rotors on top of the main fuselage. In 2033, a design was submitted that would ultimately be selected for continuation.
The parameters of the project were that the vehicle would be an armed transport: It would marry the transport ability of the Ox and the offensive capability of the short-lived Orca fighter variant. This enabled it to hover much like GDI's other vectored-thrust aircraft, but that wasn't the end of the requirements. At first, it was believed to be some sort of joke or hoax: They seemed extremely antiquated, with rotary blades on top of a primary fuselage and at the end of a long tail boom, harking back to the helicopters of the previous century. Eventually, after three years, top brass finally relented and approved the resources needed for development, which was begun immediate.Ĭonceptual designs were submitted to the top military leadership of GDI's Steel Talons Technology Research and Development Division. But the complaints didn't go away instead, they became more numerous and insistent. The V-35 Ox could carry all but the largest units to any point on the battlefield, but that ability came at the cost of speed, armor and any means of self-defense.īut with the Brotherhood of Nod fractured by squabbling factions and internal struggles in Kane's absence, these complaints were ignored.
In the wake of the Firestorm Crisis and CABAL's demise, the top commanders started making noise regarding GDI's total lack of a combat-capable aerial transport.
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