Kutral Gunship

*"I'll make you cry for Argentina!"*

"- Kutral Pilot, intercepting insurgents."

## Tactical Analysis

* **New Argentina Fighter:** Product of a better time. The Kutral is the best option for the Federation when it comes to ground combat. Be it armor or Infantry, Kutral is equally prepared for both.

* **Keeping up the Fight:** Though not as fast or powerful as those of greater, wealthier blocs, the Kutral still can make up for it due to its versatility, firing torpedos to combat heavy targets or rocket pods to disperse masses of more, less well armored ones, the Kutral is an excellent late game option to clear the room for your army to enter.

* **Product of another age:** The Kutral of course has started to show its age, as said before, it is slower than equivalents from other places, doesn't pack as much damage and must change toggle between its two modes. While cheaper than his counterparts, these hindrances must still be accounted for.

* **A new Dawn:** Veteran pilots are considered prioritary when it comes to receiving the new, updated version of the Kutral, this airplane means to patch up most of the hindrances of his predecessor, be them the relatively slow speed coming from a first generation yet fighter or the awkwardness of toggling between both weapon systems, meaning that Heroic Kutrals have an overall much better performance.

## Background

For a brief period, Argentina truly was a beacon of hope on a world constantly torn by conflict, staying aside from the conflict between Allies and Soviets, it was no surprise that the country openly welcomed refugees from both sides equally as a neutral country. A factor that did nothing but further benefit the image of this country as an island of progress and tranquility in an ever changing world.

Offering generous incentives to any scientist and skilled professional who’d want to take home in this territory, the country quickly became a power that had nothing to envy even the most developed of European countries, quickly was it making progress on diverse fields, being officially the first neutral country to have built their own fleet of first generation jet fighters, not to mention the huge advances it was taking in the fields of medicine, communications and even the experimental chrono-technology. For a while, the country could show itself as an alternative to the world, the first real third way which could provide this progress thanks to the way in which it could turn a blind eye to the background of the, sometimes, shady scientists that made of this nation their new home.

Nonetheless, every golden age has to eventually end, and the death bell of Argentina specifically came with the advent of the Junta that took the power from Peron, not to mention the rising power to the north that was the United Technate, a giant that once established copied and perfected Argentina’s rhetoric, postulating themselves as the real model to the world, a bastion of progress made possible by the use of science and technology and that above all supported the advance of technicians and scientists for the well-being of the complete population.

Argentina however had other problems to deal with in the meanwhile, suddenly becoming a staunch allied supporter, it soon found itself to be surrounded by potential enemies, the United Technate to the north presenting itself as a wild card that wasn’t above trying to destabilize their nation in favor of their own model and the hardcore communist countries that was Chile to the west and Uruguay to the north, the Junta found itself controlling a powerful nascent power, but one that in the wider scale of things was still small and surrounded by enemies, actions had to be made swiftly thoroughly, they had to leave a message to the rest of their neighbors of the real power that Argentina could wield.

The use of Chile as a base for soviet operations provided the perfect excuse to embark on a crusade against this nation in a show of force, however the task of invading a country such as Chile, possessing natural choke points that’d make a land invasion all but impossible, couldn't simply be ignored. Fortunately, Argentina still had their military industry, even if growing old by the standards of an ever changing world, the fact that they had their own set of homegrown jet fighters still couldn’t be ignored, their production being quicker and cheaper than simply importing the standardized models that the Allied Nations had provided for the Peacekeeper Corps. Now it was simply a matter of adapting them to ground warfare.

Christened as Kutrals, these fighters certainly passed their tests brilliantly, the armies of Chile never expecting such swift and frequent air raids throughout their entire territory, never prepared for the invasion of a special kind of bomber specifically suited for the conditions of their territory.

The Kutral became a dark figure in the skies of Chile,a shadow that wouldn't show mercy when it came to bombing even the most scattered group of guerrillas and barely armed “militia”. That is, until the tide of the war could finally be changed...

The legacy they had left on the collective consciousness simply couldn’t be ignored, many a veteran still having nightmares about the constant bombardment brought by the devils in the sky, nevermind the culling of the air force considered an enemy to the will of the people, however, the nascent Federation still found itself on a dire need for assembling a defense force, fast, for the war still wasn't completely over and it was just a matter of time until other opportunistic forces would come pouring down from the north. As much as it hurt the image of the new Federal government, the Kutrals needed to be put to use, once again.

Terribly outdated and now bearing a dark legacy behind them, the government has made everything in their hands to clear, somehow, the image of these terrible machines of war. The paint job being drastically altered to remove any resemblance to their former allegiances, the haphazard implementation of Cybernetic Systems to coordinate with the rest of the Federation's army (and the Vigilante Force, if needed), the Kutral is now a strange Oxymoron of a weapon used to defend the peoples with the image of their opressors. A symbol of the desperation which the Federation faces to some, though a symbol of the willingness to clear the past, correct the mistakes and create a better future for the people of the Federation, to others.

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