The term HK-Aerial refers to a wide variety of Skynet's large airborne VTOL-capable Non-Humanoid Hunter Killers. Featuring a devastating array of under-slung and wing-mounted lasers, missiles, and plasma cannons, the HK-Aerial is fearsome and terrifying to behold.
Specification[]
Often operating in support of ground sweeps by swarms of Series 800 Endoskeletons, they are one of the more dangerous targets for the members of the Resistance to engage.[1][2]
HK-Aerials can be brought down by shoulder fired surface to air missiles.[3]
Known variants[]
There are light raiders seen patrolling the wastelands of the Future War,[4][1] massive and heavily armed ground support craft,[2] as well as troop transport variants[5] which on occasion have been captured and subverted for use by the Resistance.[6][7]The HK-Aerial has been deployed in many configurations by both Skynet and the Soviet Artificial Intelligence MIR.[5]
In the Terminator Salvation timeline, an HK-Aerial is able to carry T-700 Terminator onboard.[8]
In the Terminator Genisys timeline, an HK-Aerial is able to store and carry a Spider Tank.
Dragon[]
CSM-300 A-1000 "Dragon" is a variant of the HK-Aerial.[9]
Judging by its appearance, the Dragon is possibly the standard HK-Aerial as seen in the film The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
HK-Bomber[]
- Main article: HK-Bomber
Aerial Recon Unit[]
An HK-8475 Hunter-Killer Aerial Recon Unit is able to destroy a target from long distance.[10]
HK-VTOL[]
- Main article: HK-VTOL
Continually engineering upgrades to the original design, a smaller, more agile air unit is available in a sleeker, more organic design with the HK-VTOL,[11] a unit powerful enough to carry a Boeing 747 jet engine in a cargo sling.
Notes[]
- The HK-Aerial was the very first Hunter Killer seen, appearing in the opening moments of the first film of Terminator series.
- The HK was redesigned for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Terminator Salvation and Terminator Genisys, which can be explained as a result of the alternation of the timelines in-universely.
- In Terminator Salvation: Movie Preview, a HK Aerial from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is depicted, rather than the Terminator Salvation HK Aerial.
- In Terminator Salvation, the Air Transport is able to store two HK-Aerials.
Appearances[]
- Films
- The Terminator
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
- Terminator Salvation
- Terminator Genisys
- Comics
- The Terminator (NOW Comics)
- Terminator: All My Future's Past
- Terminator: The Burning Earth
- The Terminator: Hunters and Killers
- The Terminator: The Dark Years
- The Terminator: The Enemy Within
- Superman vs. The Terminator: Death to the Future
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Nuclear Twilight
- Terminator 3: Before the Rise
- Terminator 2: Infinity
- Terminator: Revolution
- Terminator Salvation: Sand in the Gears
- Terminator Salvation: Movie Preview
- Terminator/Robocop: Kill Human
- Novels
- T2: The Future War
- Dark Futures
- Terminator Salvation: Cold War
- Terminator Salvation: Trial by Fire
- Games
- The Terminator: 2029 (video game)
- The Terminator: Future Shock
- The Terminator: Skynet
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (arcade game)
- Terminator 3: War of the Machines
- Terminator 3: The Redemption
- Terminator Salvation (video game)
- Terminator Genisys (video game)
- Television series
- Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
- ↑ Future War scenes in The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- ↑ The Terminator
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Terminator: Hunters and Killers
- ↑ The Terminator: Future Shock
- ↑ The Terminator: Skynet
- ↑ As demonstrated by the HK-Aerial merchandise from Terminator Salvation franchise.
- ↑ The Terminator: 2029 (video game)
- ↑ The Terminator Collectible Card Game
- ↑ Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 1 DVD Commentary for the episode Dungeons & Dragons
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