Falconer AA Tank

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Falconer AA Tank
Vehicle in Just Cause 4
Type	Anti-aircraft tank
Weapons	AA cannons and unused missiles
Rarity	Rare
List of owners	Black Hand Army of Chaos Demons
Top speed (km/h)	139
Top speed (mph)	Unknown

The Falconer AA Tank is a tank in Just Cause 4.

AppearanceEdit

It is a light tank with a four-barreled turret for shooting down low-flying aircraft. The tank also has 8 missile launcher tubes, similar to the 2K22, but these do not function in the game.

The engine is at the back and the sprocket wheel is at the front, indicating that the gearbox is at the front. This layout was very common for armored vehicles until WW2. The tracks have 6 road wheels and an identical idler. They also have 5 small wheels to hold the track up. The sides have thin skirts that break off easily when damaged.

The hull front is asymmetrical with some type of vent-like thing on the right and a hatch on the left. The hatch can be broken off to reveal cut-out with some mechanical parts. There is a hatch on the left, above a presumable drivers seat, but Rico enters through the turret. The engine-deck at the rear is a little higher than the rest of the hull, but it doesn't obstruct rearward gunfire.

The turret has guns on the sides and non-functional missile launchers under the guns. The turret roof has 2 hatches: a round one on the left (that Rico uses) and an angular one on the right. There are two antennas on it too. A stationary radar antenna and a 1 meter spire.

It incorporates the chassis of an American M8 light tank, turret of the West German Flakpanzer Gepard, although some would argue that it is a Tunguska turret, and elements of the Soviet 2K22 nose radar. One might think that it is something out of a modern hybrid system used by the militaries of some countries that received both American and Soviet weaponry.

PerformanceEdit

It is very fast for a tank. The guns fire relatively quickly, but much too slow when compared to any real weapon of its type.

The tank has 300 units of ammunition, which is only 75 per gun, which is very few, but it can easily blow up most vehicles with a single hit and helicopters and other tanks with 3 to 4 hits.

It likely has the highest combat effectiveness of all JC4 ground vehicles.

It can drive up to 139 km/h, but it's very slow to reach that speed. The maximum reverse speed is 63 km/h.

The tank can turn around on the spot, but like the other tanks, the tracks are spinning in the opposite directions as it does this. See more at Just Cause 4 Bugs and glitches.

The tank is pretty effective against helicopters, but definitely not fighter planes. It's very hard to shoot down fighter jets unless they are flying in a straight line, which they mostly don't. With good lead, one can take out a large, straight-flying plane. This is realistic, as gun-based AA systems became obsolete by the 1950s due to the increased speed of jet-propelled aircraft. Gun-based systems are still operated by many militaries because they're faster and more effective than missiles at close-range engagements against low-flying helicopters and more recently also against reconnaissance drones.

Versions and locationsEdit

Black Hand version:

• Can be found in Próspero Tanques.
• Has to be hijacked in the mission Windwalker: Diversion.
• Can be found at Aeropuerto General Benitez.
• Can be found during the mission "Qacha Breakout".
• Can uncommonly be found in traffic, even in Army of Chaos-secure regions.
• Used to chase Rico during high level of heat

Army of Chaos version:

• Probably at the front in some areas. Not near the start of the game.
• Is unlocked for supply drop after completing the mission Training: Sacred River.
• Can rarely spawn in traffic in the mountainous region of Solís.

Wrecks:

• At many junkyards among wrecks of civilian vehicles.
• Sometimes at the front.

Los Demonios version:

• Appears in some domes as a captured Black Hand version that still retains its original function as an anti-aircraft weapon.
• Appears in the mission Extermination as something to destroy. This one isn't really driven. It's a stationary AA weapon.

TriviaEdit

• As an armored vehicle with a gun-based anti-aircraft armament, it's the successor to the Harland DTWV-2 AA gun and the Ballard Centronel AAWV - 21 from Just Cause.
• In real life, a gun that fires that quickly with such a small barrel and caliber can't be very powerful. However, it is in-game only a little less powerful than other cannons.

GalleryEdit

Front. The hatch on the front wall has been broken off, revealing the dark cut-out area.

Left front corner. The mudguards have broke off, revealing the top of the track.

Rear.

Wreck and Black Hand versions, as seen for the first time in game trailers.

In some pre-launch gameplay video.

In some pre-launch gameplay video.

As seen in the mission Windwalker: Diversion.

As seen in the mission Windwalker: Diversion.

As seen in the mission Windwalker: Diversion.

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