Cormorant ASW Helicopter
Dipping sonar and homing torpedoes: the aircraft that hunts submarines.
Stats
- Tier
- Tier 3
- Cost
- 700 metal
- Build time
- 34 s
- Hit points
- 340
- Armor
- Aircraft
- Speed
- 2.9 tiles/s
- Unit cap
- 2
- Vision
- 9 tiles
- Sonar
- 10 tiles
- Power
- −2
- DPS
- 35
- Range
- 5 tiles
- Built at
- Strategic Airbase
- Requires
- Radar Station
Weapons
Homing torpedoes
- Damage
- 140
- Reload
- 4 s
- Rounds carried
- 2
- DPS
- 35
- Range
- 5 tiles
- Traits
- The round steers after its target in flight and lands on it however it moves. An unguided round is fired at where the target is heading, and can miss.
- vs Ship
- ×0.90
- vs Submarine
- ×1.80
Counters
- Light
- Effective against: —; Countered by: —
- Medium
- Effective against: —; Countered by: ×1
- Heavy
- Effective against: —; Countered by: ×0.70
- Structure
- Effective against: —; Countered by: ×1
- Ship
- Effective against: ×0.90; Countered by: ×1
- Submarine
- Effective against: ×1.80; Countered by: —
- Aircraft
- Effective against: —; Countered by: ×1
The Cormorant is the aircraft that hunts submarines: a dipping sonar that reaches ten tiles, a tile past the Aegis's, and homing torpedoes that bite hardest below. It is the answer from the air to the Barracuda, to the Kraken and its warhead, and to the Moray.
Quote
| Operation | Voice lines |
|---|---|
| Selection | Listening for boats. |
| Movement | Moving the search pattern. Copy. Moving to your mark. |
| Attack | Setting up the torpedo approach. Copy. Starting the attack. |
| Hold / stop | Standing by for orders. |
| Board / pick up | Coming in for pickup. |
| Protect / escort | Staying with you. |
Trivia
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A helicopter cannot listen while it flies. It hovers, lowers the sonar into the water on a cable, listens, hoists it and hops to the next spot. Dipping, the crews call it. The Sea King of 1961 was the first to carry both the sonar and the torpedoes, so one aircraft could find a boat and sink it without calling anyone.
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The Cormorant listens ten tiles out but launches torpedoes from five. Its search circle is therefore twice its weapon range, and it carries just two torpedoes before returning to rearm.
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