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This is the most iconic vehicle, aside from the supertanks Mike and Victor, that I designed for my comic 6-commando . I owe a large part of this design in its present iteration to Jim Francis, I have to admit - he did a swell drawing of it on a guest page he drew for me years ago, and the edits he made to the design stuck.

The Howler is a ground-effect vehicle, what might also be called an ekranoplane or a lifting-body airfoil. In the world of 6-Commando, the United Nations uses Howlers as airmobile light tanks and reconnaissance vehicles. They can "sort of" fly - really more like a long, powered jump - and hover on direct thrust. They fill a niche in the UN battle line that doesn't exist in the real world. Probably the closest parallel would be a riverine craft, or perhaps the heavier helicopter gunships. But either way, the design is fairly sound, although not hugely useful in the real world.

Description
This is the most iconic vehicle, aside from the supertanks Mike and Victor, that I designed for my comic 6-commando . I owe a large part of this design in its present iteration to Jim Francis, I have to admit - he did a swell drawing of it on a guest page he drew for me years ago, and the edits he made to the design stuck.

The Howler is a ground-effect vehicle, what might also be called an ekranoplane or a lifting-body airfoil. In the world of 6-Commando, the United Nations uses Howlers as airmobile light tanks and reconnaissance vehicles. They can "sort of" fly - really more like a long, powered jump - and hover on direct thrust. They fill a niche in the UN battle line that doesn't exist in the real world. Probably the closest parallel would be a riverine craft, or perhaps the heavier helicopter gunships. But either way, the design is fairly sound, although not hugely useful in the real world.