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Vampire Raider

The Vampire Raider is a large Eldar aircraft used in a similar way to the Thunderhawk Transporter. A favored weapon of Eldar Corsair's, it is used to move troops from orbit to the ground and is quite heavily armed, enabling it to fulfil the roll of rapid response unit. It has Pulse Lasers, Scatter Lasers, Phoenix Missile Launchers and Pulsars of varying design but can also carry up to 30 troops at once. The Vampire Raider can also be attached with gravitic hooks which can lock onto Falcon or Wave Serpent vehicles, allowing the Vampire to transport them into battle as well. To ensure protection from enemy fire it is protected with sophisticated energy shields and Holo-fields.^1-p602

Like most Eldar aircraft such as the Nightwing, the Vampire Raider is capable of operating in the vacuum of space just as well as the atmosphere and thus Vampire Raiders are used as the primary transport for Eldar assault forces descending from orbit.^1b

Sources

• ^1a:Imperial Armour - Apocalypse
• ^1b:Imperial Armour II pg. 20
• ²: Imperial Armour Volume Eleven - The Doom of Mymeara pg. 201