The game comes with four different aircraft, which are grouped into two types:

• fixed wing: Albatross and Manta
• rotary: Razorbill and Petrel.

Fixed wing aircraft provide heavy strike capabilities with their large loadout capacilities.

Once launched, they can not stop flying. Unless flying to a waypoint or waiting at a hold-waypoint, they will continue flying level in a straight line.

The Albatross is good for visual scouting and identification of targets.

It can be equiped for anti-air, ground strikes or anti-shipping.

Note that a lot of the multiplayer communities use a mod that enables the Albatross to carry the AWACS attachment insted of the Manta to avoid it being a straight-up improvement over the Albatross.