Stormhawk Interceptor
The Stormhawk Interceptor is a fighter aircraft and gunship of the Space Marines
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Overview
Stormhawk Interceptors are specialized gunships closely related to the Stormtalon pattern that excels in aerial superiority. The frontal armour and huge firepower makes of the Stormhawk makes them excellent dogfighters, hurtling through the clouds to execute target after target in a blazing display of incendiary defiance. Stormhawk squadrons and their golden haloes of flares discharged to gently dissuade incoming fire are a signal that whatever planet the skies are over, they belong to the Emperor.[1] Stormhawks are also capable of operating in the void of space as Attack Craft.[2] They are dropped from mag-cradles by their carrying spacecrafts.[3]
Stormhawks are armoured in a thick ceramite layer that protects against reentry heat. Even their cockpit is armoured, foregoing a clear canopy for front-mounted lens clusters conveying visual informations to the pilot. Furthermore, Stormhawks boast sophisticated countermeasures to confound enemy weapons.[3]
Stormhawks boast impressive firepower, including twin Assault Cannons, Icarus Stormcannon or Las-Talon, twin Heavy Bolters, Typhoon Missile Launchers, or Skyhammer Missile Launchers, and a Infernum Halo Launcher.[1] The weapons are guided by a targeting system.[3]
Notable Stormhawk Interceptors
- Gladius Maximal – Ultramarines[4]
- Intolerance Justificus – Black Templars[4]
- Righteous Wrath – Praetors of Orpheus[4]
- Unrelenting – Ultramarines[4]
- Vengeance for All – Crimson Fists[4]
- Vulkan's Eye – Salamanders[4]
Notable Stormhawk Pilots
- Iron Father Gerrvos – Iron Hands[5]
- Squadron Leader Cebarus – Ultramarines Guilliman's Thunder[5]
- Squadron Leader Jaghai – White Scars Plainshawks[5]
- Squadron Leader Kyrolius — Raven Guard 4th Company[4][5]
- Techmarine Ascellius – Ultramarines[5]
- Techmarine Vaestus – Ultramarines[5]
Images
Righteous Wrath (Praetors of Orpheus Chapter)[5]
Black Guard Stormhawk
Doom Legion Stormhawk
Miniatures
Stormhawk Interceptor of the Ultramarines[1]
Stormhawk Interceptor top view[1]
See also
Sources
- 1: Games Workshop webstore :Stormhawk Interceptor (saved archive)
- 2: Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2
- 3: Warhammer 40,000: The Ultimate Guide, pg. 35
- 4: Flyers of the Dark Millennium, pgs. 4-14
