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| Due to their unique fighting tendencies and their highly
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| mobile nature, Hunter Cadres do not use artillery in
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| the conventional sense that most armies do. Instead, in
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| association with the Air caste, they have developed the Sun
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| Shark Bomber - a sleek atmospheric aircraft that is capable
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| of sweeping down from the skies and blasting ground targets
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| with its potent payload.
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| Sun Shark Bombers come equipped with a pulse bomb
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| generator, which produces a ball of deadly plasma beneath
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| the craft. At the pilot's command, the pulsed induction
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| field propels the glaring energy ball towards targets on
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| the battlefield below. Sizzling the air around it, the pulse
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| bomb explodes on the ground with an incandescent fury,
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| spreading destruction over a wide radius. A shoal of Sun
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| Shark Bombers flying in tight formation can blast apart even
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| the most surging of Ork Waaaghs! with a single flyover.
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| An extremely effective weapon, once fired, the pulse bomb
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| generator immediately begins to form another destructive
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| charge. Sometimes, however, a persistent glitch from its
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| prototype days results in a power failure, meaning the Sun
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| Shark cannot drop further bombs until the engineers can
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| reconfigure the micro power plant. With this in mind,
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| the Sun Shark has also been equipped with several other
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| weapons, including a pair of seeker missiles. Many a desperate
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| Pathfinder or Fire Warrior Team owe their continued
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| existence to those airborne seeker missiles, which they call in
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| using their markerlights. Their ability to strike enemy vehicles
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| or make short work of armoured infantry with the help of
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| nearby air support greatly increases their chances for survival.
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| The Sun Shark also bears a tail-mounted missile pod, which
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| can be upgraded to a twin-linked version, as well as a nosemounted
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| networked markerlight to line up bombing runs.
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| To ensure the Sun Shark survives long enough to deliver
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| its bombing run, the vehicle is equipped with a pair of
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| wing mounted Interceptor Drones. Each armed with a
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| powerful twin-linked ion rifle, Interceptor Drones can either
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| stay attached to the Sun Shark, where they act like turretmounted
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| weapons, or, they can detach from the flyer and
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| serve as an escort.
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| When disembarking from the Sun Shark Bomber, the
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| Interceptor Drones position themselves to intervene
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| between the bomber and any oncoming fighters. They
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| also have the ability to boost their jets, giving them a rare
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| burst of speed, that allows Interceptor Drones to better
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| position themselves to lock onto aerial targets and attempt
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| to blast them out of the sky. Few enemy flyers are capable of
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| withstanding the vaporising effects of the ion rifle, and some
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| Interceptor Drones have racked up impressive kill totals; a
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| source of bragging rights for the Sun Shark's Air caste pilots,
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| if not for the AI powered drones themselves.
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