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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. 1.0 1.1 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  2. 2.0 2.1 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
  3. Future War scenes in The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  4. The Terminator
  5. 5.0 5.1 The Terminator: Hunters and Killers
  6. The Terminator: Future Shock
  7. The Terminator: Skynet
  8. As demonstrated by the HK-Aerial merchandise from Terminator Salvation franchise.
  9. The Terminator: 2029 (video game)
  10. The Terminator Collectible Card Game
  11. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 1 DVD Commentary for the episode Dungeons & Dragons
HK-Aerial
Dragon - Scorpion - Manta - HK-Fighter - HK-Bomber (FK Bomber) - HK-Scout - HK-Drone (HK-Airstrike) - HK-VTOL - FK Raker - FK Carrier - Air Transport
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