Vehicles in Just Cause 4

This article is a list of all known vehicles in Just Cause 4.

Just Cause 4 has been released so all vehicles are now known. This article will eventually be moved to Category:Just Cause 4 Vehicles.

Many are listed in supply drop.

Improvements over previous games

Aerodynamics

One of the new vehicular features in Just Cause 4 is aerodynamics. Developers explained in some promotional interviews that different vehicles with different aerodynamical properties will be able to withstand wind and tornadoes more than others.

Effects of damage taken

Surprisingly, Just Cause 4 has a more realistic system for the effects of damage on vehicles (obviously setting aside the unrealistic equalization system). In previous games, vehicles only looked differently as they took more damage, before eventually exploding. In Just Cause 4, vehicle performance is worsened when the damage the vehicle has taken reaches a certain point. In all vehicles, there are three stages of vehicle performance: normal, engine failure and critical (not official names). The damage a vehicle sustains is reflected by its appearance (cracked windows, smashed headlights, broken doors, smoking engine etc).

All vehicles start off as "normal" - they perform (but might not look) as good as new, even if it has already taken some damage.

Once the damage the vehicle has sustained surpasses the halfway point of the vehicle's health (damaged so that it has less than half health left), it will enter an "engine failure" state, where top speed and acceleration is signficantly reduced. In air vehicles, the vehicle becomes much more difficult to control, is much less agile and sometimes wobbles and sways without the player even touching the controls. In a player-operated vehicle, the "engine failure" state is indicated by an orange flashing exclamation mark near the speedometer.

After taking some more damage, the vehicle will eventually reach a "critical" state, where remaining health is next to zero and the vehicle is completely inoperable. This is usually indicated by the vehicle being on fire and when player operated a red flashing exclamation mark to the left of the speedometer. At this point, the vehicle will soon explode on its own even if no more damage is taken and the player should bail out ASAP.

Ammunition

From before the game was released, a note worthy of significant notice is the fact that all vehicle mounted weapons were revealed to have limited ammunition. Approximate examples from gameplay videos:

A helicopter can have 20 missiles and 1000 heavy MG rounds. This later turned out to be the Bloodhound Siege Heli with 100 missiles and 1000 MG rounds.
The light tank has something around 300 main gun shells and 750 heavy MG rounds. This later turned out to be the Warchief Assault Tank with the same armament, but definitely a main battle tank in lieu of a "light" tank.
A jet can come equipped with 60 bombs and 1600 MG rounds. This later turned out to be the Thunderhead Bomber Jet.

There is only two exceptions during missions. Thunderbarge: Ion Coil Delivery features a Reptile AAV with infinite MG ammunition during that mission only. Similarly, the Thunderbarge in Operation Thunderbarge has unlimited mortar ammunition during that mission only.

Otherwise, a couple other items still have unlimited ammunition, but their usefulness is severely limited. These include the Machine Gun, AA Gun, and other pieces of artillery.

Perspective

In Just Cause 4, most player-operated vehicles can be changed to be seen from a different perspective. There are four perspectives: default third person (used in previous games), closeup third person (camera is closer to the vehicle), first person (seen as though the camera is perched on the windshield of the vehicle), and unobstructed first person (seen as though the camera is in front of the entire vehicle).

Radio

Another thing to note is that all vehicles have a radio. The radio has multiple music stations and a talk station Solís Hoy that expands the lore and reports news.

Returning vehicles

Previous Just Causes had a few vehicles that seemed to return, but they had different names and only resembled enough to count as spiritual successors. Examples: Pocumtuck Nomad, Mosca 125 Performance/Mosca 125 Rallye, the various MV types.

There can be no doubt that several vehicle models were reused from JC3 with only minimal changes, but they do not have the same names.

Equalization

An important thing to note about vehicles and explosive weapons in Just Cause 4 is their system of equalization. Unlike previous games, in Just Cause 4, the damage and durability points/"health"/HP (The number system that JC4 uses to calculate durability is unknown) of vehicles and their weapons are somewhat equalized.

All unarmored vehicles can survive more or less the exact same amount of damage before being destroyed, which is to say they have the same "HP". Armored vehicles- whether lightly armored helicopters, moderately armored APCs or heavily armored tanks all are about just as durable: able to survive two explosions before the third blows them up, or eventually blow up from a long continuous period of machine gun fire. Although there are small differences in vehicles' durability/HP (such as a Warchief Assault Tank (heavy tank) being just a little more durable than a Pointman Scout Tank (light tank) which is slightly more armored than a Reptile AAV (APC) or Bloodhound Siege Heli (armored attack heli)), these differences are too subtle to notice in the heat of the battle. In reality, APCs and armored Attack Helicopters most likely cannot survive a direct hit from an explosive shell fired from a high-caliber tank mounted cannon, while MBTs may be able survive several. Obviously, a main battle tank is more armored than a medium tank, which is more armored than a light tank, which is in turn more armored than an APC. So logically the damage they sustain should before exploding should vary based on their armor, ie tanks survive the most punishment and APCs the least. However, JC4 makes them all have the same "health" units.

For one reason or another, Just Cause 4 decides to make all armored vehicles have about the same durability levels, which can be considered very unrealistic.

On top of that, a Longbow Canon Truck deals only a little more damage than a standard cannon round or RPG, despite the Longbow having a massive artillery gun: All explosions are equalized as well. However, different types of bullets fired from different handheld small-aarms have different damage output, probably because the player relies more on these.

Just Cause (1) and Just Cause 3 are noticeably more realistic in this aspect, despite these games being older. In JC3, the CS Odjur IFV is more durable than the CS Baltdjur APC or the Urga Hrom D attack helicopter (Odjur takes 2-3 hits to destroy, others will be at critical health with one), which isn't the most realistic, but better than JC4 nevertheless.

It is possible to remove this system by making the HP of certain vehicle types and the damage of certain weapon types realistically different. This in theory can be done through modifying game files.

Some patches have slightly effected this system. The Dropzone Chopper will now explode in just two explosive rounds while the Bloodhound Siege Heli seems to have been heavily buffed when used by Rico. For the most part though, vehicles are still more or less equal (in terms of durability).

Notes about the below lists

Many of the the below names were first reported from pre-launch gameplay videos where they had different names. These became Cut game content from Just Cause 4 because the vehicles were renamed before game launch. Do not remove these. They will be sorted into the cut content article and into the final vehicles pages (in their trivia sections).
Until we have an article for each vehicle, all descriptions should ideally be detailed enough to recognize the described vehicle from the gallery below. Please do not add duplicates into the list, as they are hard enough to tell apart with entries like "another sports car", or "another SUV".
The supply drop may seem like the same thing, making one list redundant, but it does not include all vehicles (or their versions). This article is meant to list everything.
According to one of the official videos, there's a total of 104 vehicles available to be dropped. However, there are usually several unique versions of vehicles, so counting those, the number of vehicles in the game could be significantly bigger. Last counted, there was 117 listed below here. If Army of Chaos versions of Black Hand vehicles are to be counted separately, then there could be about maybe 140.

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Land vehicles

Civilian cars

Coyle Mambo - Muscle car, similar in appearance to a Ford Mustang and the AMC Javelin with the rear end alike to the 1969 Dodge Charger. It has 'Coyle' written in chrome text on the rear, although it's unknown whether this is a model or manufacturer name.
- Rico's custom Mambo S - Version of the above. This is the car featured in the Deathstalker Scorpion DLC Pack.
- Rigged Coyle Mambo - Is equipped with a bomb.
Prisa Viento SUV - An SUV or hatchback that appears to be the Stria Kavala, with more polymer accessories and trim pieces.
Kerner Serpente S - Closely resembles the Kerner Serpente R.
- Rigged Serpente S - Is equipped with a bomb.
Armadillo Pugilista‎‎ / Pugilista SUV - Angular two-door SUV with vertical walls. It has "Armadillo" written on the front end. Seems slightly similar to an H3 in some angles. Also resembles a Gurgel Tocantins, but on a smaller body the size of a Weimaraner. It has a spare wheel on the hood. There's also a Black Hand version of this.
Pasofino Pickup - Closely resembles the Stria Toro.
Vagabundo Buggy - Buggy that closely resembles the Urga Ogar 7 V8. It's available in a number of versions.
Prisa Hidalgo - Closely resembles the Stria Infimo S, but has 4 front lights. It appears in both derelict and cleaner versions.
Prisa Cúmbila - Closely resembles the Stria Joia.
Verdeleon Eco / Verdeleon Cinco - High-end sports car, very similar to the Verdeleon 3. It comes in several slightly different versions.
- Espinosa's Verdeleon - Outdated name of one of the above vehicles versions. Later changed to the one below.
- Neon Racer Sportscar - One of the versions.
Prisa Fresca - Closely resembles the Stria Cucciola.
Prisa Fresca X - Modern hatchback. Looks the same as Stria Gioco.
Prisa Azor 3 - Small sporty hatchback with a racing kit. This car has a large spoiler, 3 externally mounted front lights, big front bumper attachment of sorts and an air intake on the roof. It resembles the Fukuda Tournament, and takes the appearance of a hill climb rally car.
Prisa Rayo Sport - New hatchback similar in size and shape to a Windhund 4, except it resembles a car almost like a Volkswagen Gol or Polo.
'69 Mugello Raffinati - Closely resembles the Mugello Raffinati Vitesse.
Mugello Quipozza G - Closely resembles the Mugello Quipozza F.
- Rigged Quipozza G - Is equipped with a bomb.
Kerner Charmant Limo - Limousine.
- Rigged Charmant limo - Is equipped with a bomb.
Cadía '83 hatchback / Cadadía 83' Hatchback - Looks like an old Volkswagen Golf / Stria Carera Standard.
Kerner 16' Vigeur - Sporty-looking car. Unknown if has 2 or 4 doors.
Sol 21 Sport Sedan - Modern 2-door car.

All motorcycles and similar things

Prisa Viveza Bike - Sports bike which looks similar to the MV402.
Próspero Hunter Bike - Military motorcycle with canisters on the sides. Similar to the Pavouk U-15.
Alpinista Snowmobile - Could possibly be the same snowmobile that was cut from Just Cause 3 (see Cut game content from Just Cause 3). This vehicle has Armadillo written on its side.
Prisa X-2 Bike - Old-fashioned motorcycle, resembling the Victory Bellevue.
Prisa Maradona Z - Modern dirt bike that has the same design as the Geschwind V3000 but with a different paint job and no evidence of an Autostraad logo.
Prisa Tía Moped - Looks identical to '69 Stria Sussurro.
Furia Sportbike - Modern high-end sports motorcycle.
Mugello V405 Superbike - Modern very high-end motorcycle.
Ritmo Rickshaw - Similar to Tuk-Tuk Rickshaw, but has a more open front end.
Prisa Temerario ATV - ATV.

Civilian special-purpose vehicles

Prisa Viajero Bus - Modern city bus. Closely resembles the Citispeed Eco 75.
Chupacabra - Monster truck.
- Rigged Chupacabra - Is equipped with a bomb.
At least three types of civilian Vehicle trailers. There is a closed box, a flatbed and a car transporter.
Semi-trailer trucks - Cab-over-engine trucks seen attached to aforementioned trailers. The truck seems identical to the Autostraad Reisender 7, but has "ARMADILLO" written on the front.
Bulldozer / Wheel Loader - A big front loader with an odd design having the front wheels smaller than the rear wheels. The bucket is able to be raised and lowered by the player. Also very strangely, the vehicle has hydraulic stabilizing legs at the rear corners.
Armadillo Montacargas / Armadillo Forklift - A different kind of front loader vehicle that has hydraulic stabilizing legs at all corners. It comes with a forklift attachment and the boom can be operated by the player. The vehicle's shape should allow the top half of the vehicle to rotate, but it doesn't seem to be possible in the pre-release videos.
Articulated Crane / Armadillo Crane Truck - 14-wheeled mobile crane truck with a crane usable by the player. It has the most wheels of any land vehicle in the Just Cause series by far, the previous most being only 8 wheels.
Hurricane Chaser / Storm Chaser / Stormchaser / Verdad 1 Stormchaser - Fast yellow truck resembling an airport fire truck.
Ion Coil Stormchaser - The stormchaser with a small tower on it that shoots lightning. This tower might also attract lightning, allowing the driver to pass through the tropical storms of the rainforest region.
Modelo 4 Tractor - Roofless agricultural tractor.
Ranchero Truck / Prisa Ranchero - Identical to the Stria Obrero. It has "Prisa" written on the front end.
Armadillo 9M - Quarry truck, resembling the Nashorn 6100.
Mugello Farina Trio - F1 car. Successor to the Mugello Farina Duo.
Prisa Calzada Van / Prisa Calzada - Modern van, resembling the Stria Switzo.
- Garland King Studios Van - Modern van, resembling the Stria Switzo. Probably a version of the above.
- Calzada Ambulancia - Ambulance version of the above.
Old Camper Van / Caravana Camper - Old van, resembling the '63 Autostraad Weltbus, with a different grille and chrome bumpers.
Forzudo Armored Van - Closely resembles the Stadt Tresor ST 8530.
Banda Conveyor - It's an airport luggage loading vehicle.
Airport tug of sorts, designed for towing planes. It's also parked at the end of a train of luggage trailers, giving the impression that it's used to tow it.

Military ground vehicles

Vagabundo Buggy / Weaponized Vagabungo - Armed buggy that resembles the Weaponized Urga Ogar. This is a DLC vehicle, included in the "Deathstalker Scorpion DLC Pack".
Warrior Offroad / Warrior Offroader - MV-type armored SUVs. It appears to be the most commonly used vehicle by the Black Hand and also comes in a pickup body style, although it's unknown whether these vehicles will have the same name.
Cavalry / Cavalry Armored Truck - MRAP-type 6-wheeled armored truck. It's a little smaller than the Urga Fura 570. The rebel variant is covered in graffiti or markings. This truck has an MG turret.
Strongbox AFV / Reptile AAV - 6x6 APC similar to the CS Baltdjur. It has an automated MG turret that can be controlled by the driver.
Trains and railroads in Solís.
Treaded tanks:
- Prizefighter Tank - Some light tank that in reality would count as a big infantry fighting vehicle. Resembles the Puma (IFV). Lifting this with the balloons makes it possibly stronger than an attack helicopter, but very hard to steer. Steering and propulsion can be done by setting the balloons to fly to where you're aiming.
- Pointman Scout Tank - Small light tank. In the game it's a medium tank.
- Warchief Assault Tank - Tank that resembles the Merkava Mark 4. It takes the role of a main battle tank.
- Birdhunter AA tank / Falconer AA Tank - Light tank with turret similar to the Flakpanzer Gepard, but with 4 barrels.
Próspero Longbow / Longbow Cannon Truck - a Huge 6x6 truck with a giant cannon turret.
Próspero Hauler - a Large 8x8 truck that looks like a Oshkosh M978 flatbed. Strangely, this truck has a flat rear, but it also has a connector for a semi-trailer. This is only visible in the top and rear view. Also, because the connector is further back then the most rear wheels, it should have poor handling when towing a heavy trailer.
Several types of military trailers:
- Large trailer with a guard tower on it. There's at least 2 types of this.
- Big trailer with a set of 4 missile containers. The containers closely resemble Patriot missile launchers. These are Huntsman SAMs.
- Trailer shaped like a bus/brick with a small revolving device on the roof. Possibly an open-array radar unit.
- Large box trailer with open rear doors, exposing some type of red destructible object. Unknown. Picture needed.

Sea vehicles

Prisa Chapoteo - Jet ski that can strangely be used on land. Similar to the Stria PW 220 R-GT.
Fishing Boat - Identical to the Whaleshark.
Dondequiera Fanboat - Boat with a flat bottom and a fan engine. (Pushes itself with an aircraft propeller.) There's 2 versions of it.
Thunderbarge - It has the same kind of a small mast as the storm chaser truck. The mast is tipped with a small white ball that shoots lightning out of it. Judging by the name, it might be the same as above. It is built in a mission and is a modified Stormwater patrol boat. It is used to destroy Zona dos. It has a special attack which involves an ion coil on the boat being struck by lightning. After the ion coil is struck the next shot from the boats mortar will cause a small explosion, as if lightning had struck the target.
Conquistador Warship (also known as "PA-31 Warship") - Military ship similar to the Corvette.
Stormwater Patrol Boat - Patrol boat similar to the CS Powerrun 77.
Daggershark Jetboat - Silhouette looks like a normal patrol boat of sorts.
Spearhead Transport - Large amphibious landing ship.
Barco Roro Ferry - Civilian ferry.
Mugello Pescespada SX - Speedboat, similar to the Pescespada SS. Possibly unlocked when completing the "Lago Hatun boat stunt".
- Rigged Pescespada SX - Is equipped with a bomb. Possibly unlocked when securing the Picos Helados region.
Kerner Brise 42 - Seems the same as Brise 32.
Dame de la Mer Yacht - Similar to the Dame de la Mer 99.
- Rigged Dame de la Mer - Is equipped with a bomb. This version might not actually exist. It must be a false report of sorts, because there doesn't seem to be any trace of it.

Aerial vehicles

Helicopters

Utility Helicopter / Emsavion Utility Heli / Dracon 22LR - Civilian helicopter sharing its model with the Eubus Eagle.
Emsavion News Heli - Seems identical to the above, but has a camera ball under the nose.
Dropzone Chopper - Looks similar to the CS Comet, but is bigger and it has a bed to allow vehicles and personnel inside the helicopter.
Firebrand Scout Chopper - Attack helicopter similar in appearance to the AH-1 Cobra with it's long tail boom and landing skids instead of wheeled landing gear. It is similar to the Sivirkin 15 Havoc.
Spectre Attack Heli / Spectre Attack Helicopter - Another attack helicopter this time looking almost identical to the CS Navajo but with a different cockpit canopy.
Próspero Bloodhound / Bloodhound Siege Heli - Attack helicopter seen in game art and one of two gameplay videos that appears to be a Mi-24 Hind fuselage and cockpit with the coaxial rotors from a Kamov Ka-50/52 Crocodile/Black Shark. In the gameplay, it has an armament of missiles and machine guns.
Próspero-Aero Sky Crane / Próspero Sky Crane - Skycrane-like helicopters. It uses a magnet instead of a hook. This helicopter is by far the most powerful helicopter in the Just Cause game series, as it can easily lift the EM-979 jet.
Emsavion Float Heli / Urga Racek - Small helicopter on floats.

Fixed-wing aircraft

Emsavion Thunderhead / Prospero Thunderhead / Thunderhead Bomber Jet - Twin-engine variable sweep wing fighter jet similar in appearance to the F-14 Tomcat and Panavia Tornado. It is currently armed with 60 "carpet bomb" and 1600 "machine gun" ammunition.
Fellhawk Jet Fighter - Fighter aircraft similar to an F-16 Fighting Falcon with a single engine and single vertical stabilizer setup, although it has different intakes and a cockpit almost reminiscent of a Sukhoi Su-27 or MiG-29. Just like with all other armed vehicles in the game (apart from a select few), ammunition is limited, but the ammunition counter seems to show the number of shots available to fire. This plane always fires multiple small missiles at the same time.
SkyCastle Cargo Jet / Próspero Jet Transporter - Closely resembles the U41 Ptakojester. You must secure the region Acantilados to acquire this aircraft for the supply drop. For some very strange reason, the identifying code on the side is the same designation as the Rebellion U41 Ptakojester.
Emsavion Cropduster - Small twin-engined propeller aircraft that closely resembles the Urga U17 Akrobat, although strangely it does not seem to be equipped for agricultural use. In real life most agricultural aircraft are specially built single engine propeller designs.
EM-979 Airliner - a conventional commercial narrow-body airliner similar to the Aeroliner 474, taking design influences from the Airbus A321 and Irkut MC-21, with a cockpit resembling an up-sized version of what's seen on the Mitsubishi MRJ.
PA Microfighter - Small and agile jet fighter. It also has variable sweep wings. It's armed with a "machine gun" that has 1600 of ammunition. It can also perform an "AR scan".
Black Hand Stealth Micro Jet / Stealth Microfighter - A variant of the PA Microfighter. It can turn almost invisible. However, this is purely aesthetic - enemies react just the same. It can only be obtained if one pre-ordered the digital deluxe or gold edition of Just Cause 4.
EM-909 Private Jet - Engines near the rear and a T-tail, similar in design to the Cassius 192. This is encountered at most civilian Airports in Solís.
Something resembling a DC-3.
Emsavion Floatplane - Vehicle resembling the Stria Ghibli 3 is making a return, as seen in NerdCubed's third video on Just Cause 4. Interestingly it has the same registration seen on the Urga U17 Akrobat in Just Cause 3.

Others

Twin-rotor drone fired from a gun to protect some kind of Black Hand "elite" soldiers.
Larger drone, this time about the size of a car or bigger but still with two rotors.
Smaller drones with their rotors in an almost vertical position, assuming they are rotors.
Ultralight - Microlight-type aircraft powered by a fan.
Surveillance Airship - Large motorized blimp. It can be controlled as a vehicle, but just like the Stria Switzo Propaganda, it has to be destroyed as a part of settlement completion.
Emsavion Airship - Civilian version of the airship. Both airships share this name.
Trains and railroads in Solís.
Cable cars make a return at some Black Hand bases.