Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Helix

"The Thunderstorm begins..."

-Helix

The Helix is a heavily armored, albeit slow-moving assault helicopter that is often considered as an aerial counterpart to the Overlord tank utilized by the Elsword Empire. This helicopter planned to be voiced by.

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History
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While the Empire has some of the most well-trained special forces in the world, even the Terracotta Trooper cannot take on an entire army alone. Because of Lurensia's mountainous terrain in the north, tanks were out of the question. After discarding various concepts (such as mountain terrain walkers and airships), the Empire settled on using helicopters, borrowing the idea from the Voshkod. Work started right away on a helicopter that could operate in any weather condition, engage multiple types of ground units and transport troops.

After about a dozen failed prototypes and twice the number of men killed in disastrous crashes, the WA-11 Helix was born.

Basically, the fuselage was based off the Krasna KA-32 heavy-lift transport helicopter, a upscaled version of the Voshkod Ka-29 Helix helicopter that was lost to the Mi-26 Halo. The design possessed coaxial rotors to provide high lift and a diesel nuclear hybrid engine to improve range and speed (which was copied from a Voshkod example). To allow it to support the men it drops onto the battlefield, it was given a 12.7mm gattling cannon and a pair of grenade launchers.

These weapons gave the Helix comparable firepower to their own attack gunship, the Han, it can constantly bombard the target with grenades. Though the Helix is much slower, it can take considerably more punishment than the Mi-24s but not as the Hunchback, which was considered a fair trade-off.

Trivia

 * The design in Gaiaterra is the Contra version.