Hornet Light VTOL Transport

The Hornet is a tactical aerial transport capable of airlifting up to 16 soldiers and a suspended light vehicle.

It has decent armour, ground attack capabilities and a sensor suite designed to provide telemetry data to Command and Control systems.

Propulsion
Akras recent advances in heat disposal allowed it to rethink its paradigms. All Akras vehicles are now equipped with miniature Helium-3 fusion reactors thermally shielded by Heatsink Stone(TM) technology.

The Hornet alone has six reactors, one at each F-1000 turbine, which expand and accelerate the air used as propellent mass to provide lift and propulsion.

While the Hornet had variable geometry wings, they're mostly to improve the craft's manoeuvrability, and provide only minimal lift.

Armament
An Akras 50mm Autocannon nose turret as main armament, with a complement of four Air-To-Ground missiles and twelve dumbfire rockets on pylons

Armour
The Hornet has a 75mm lightweight composite sandwich armour of alloy platings, ten layers of layered titanium, plasteel, ceramic plates, ablative rubber and Kevlar weave. This armour is capable of resisting 35mm AP rounds and the detonation of proximity missiles.