Thunderbolt Strike Jet
Rocket strafing runs against vehicles and light targets.
AirAircraftTier 2Aircraft
Stats
- Tier
- Tier 2
- Cost
- 440 metal
- Build time
- 25 s
- Hit points
- 360
- Armor
- Aircraft
- Speed
- 5 tiles/s
- Unit cap
- 2
- Vision
- 10 tiles
- DPS
- 30
- Range
- 4.5 tiles
Production and tech
Built at
Counters
Effective against
Countered by
—Weapons
Rocket pods
GroundShips
- Damage
- 18 ×4
- Reload
- 2.40 s
- Range
- 4.5 tiles
- DPS
- 30
Splash 12 px
Damage multiplier by armor class
Light
×1.40
Medium
×1.40
Heavy
×0.90
Structure
×0.70
Ship
×0.90
Submarine
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Aircraft
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Overview
The Thunderbolt Strike Jet makes rocket strafing runs against vehicles and light targets. Its four-rocket burst with splash is excellent against light and medium armor and useless against buildings.
How to use
Use it to answer an enemy tank column that is out of your army's reach: dive, fire, climb away, repeat. It is far more cost-effective than a Cobra against light and medium vehicles, but weaker against heavy tanks. Rockets are short-ranged, so the jet must overfly its target, which means flying through any flak escorting it.
Counters
Flak Tracks especially, plus SAMs, AA Turrets and Fighters. It counters Light Tanks, Battle Tanks, buggies and artillery.