Welcome to Red Alert 20XX. The aim of this mod is to pay tribute to old Command & Conquer games, while giving YR a fresh feel in a brand new cold war context.
At the end of the liberation of Europe, the US deployed special operations to incapacitate the Russia air and naval production, maintenance and operationnal capacity. Surprizingly, one division to be spare by that campaign was the Russian Space program agency : Roscosmos. With the US considering that this agency posed little strategic and tactical threat to the liberation of Europe (and because most space programs were underfunded as the Soviet high command was facing internal power struggle), most of Roscosmos's assets were left untouched by war.
In the Cold War that followed, Russia had no more airforce and definitely lost the Space race. But Roscosmos began to see its funding increased by Moscow, to see what technological advance could be made. Aside from a few communication satelites, the agency's greatest development was the "Gargarin" Spy Plane, a formidable hypersonic aircraft that could map the battlefield for the commander. Low maneuverability and complex launching and landing procedure made the aircraft unfit for combat, but its speed made it excellent for evading enemy AA systems.
This new Spy Plane is therefore very fast, reducing the time between its deployment being ordered and unveiling the shroud. It also cannot be targeted by AA systems, meaning that all of your base won't activate to try to kill it and it won't crash on your units or your buildings.
Credits to Crazy Bird once more for the model.
Good to hear it will arrive at spot faster! BTW, how about renaming it to "Recon Plane"? After all it's a "spy" for allies, but recon for soviets.
look really cool, i hated the vanilla model
So cool!