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| To the Fire Warriors forming the front ranks of a firing
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| line, there are few sights more gratifYing than seeing a
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| Razorshark Strike Fighter swoop out of the cloud cover and
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| streak over enemy formations. Built along a design pattern
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| modified from the Sun Shark Bomber, the Razorshark
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| forgoes the Interceptor Drone in favour of additional
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| manoeuvring thrusters, and it trades the pulse bomb
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| generator for a fearsome quad ion turret. A formidable
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| weapon, the quad ion turret is ideal for turning light
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| vehicles into twisted wrecks. Although it makes the weapon
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| slightly unstable, when fired on its overcharged mode, the
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| quad ion turret can produce an enormous blast radius that
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| consumes entire squads with a single shot.
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| During the Tyranid invasion on the sept world of Ke'lshan,
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| the aliens quickly grew wary of the dominating Tau air
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| attacks. High in the stratosphere, the super-heavy Manta
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| blasted away the flying terrors, while just above the planet's
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| surface swept the Sun Shark Bombers, their pulse bombs
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| breaking up the swarming Hormagaunt attacks. While
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| the Tau's entire aerial arsenal played a part, it was the
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| Razorshark Strike Fighters that took the highest toll on
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| their foe. Streaking back and forth over the battlefront,
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| the Razorsharks relentlessly targeted the Tyranid Warriors,
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| the beams from their quad ion turrets easily penetrating
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| the Tyranids' thick, chitinous armour. After one of the
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| Razorshark's attack runs, entire squads of the elite alien
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| warriors would be left in ruin, their half-melted bodies
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| continuing to sizzle long after their deaths. A fast moving
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| craft, the Razorshark was able to seek out and destroy the
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| brains of the invasion - whether they attempted to lurk far
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| behind the front lines, or chose to surround themselves
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| with intervening lesser creatures, the Razorshark was
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| manoeuvrable enough to hunt them down. When infilu-ators
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| such as Lictors or Raveners emerged to threaten the Fire
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| Warriors, the Razorsharks could swiftly fly back to target
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| the beasts, minimising both the harm and the disuaction of
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| such attacks.
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| The Razorshark Strike Fighter can engage enem flyers,
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| but the craft was purpose-built as a ground support attack
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| craft; a role in which it excels. Its success is evident from
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| the craft's ever-growing popularity with the Fire Warriors
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| that it flies above. In addition to its main armament, each
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| Razorshark is loaded out with a nose-mounted burst cannon.
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| For further support, it also carries two seeker mis iles. These
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| can be auto-fired by the Razorshark's Air caste pilot himself,
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| but are more effective when launched by a ground unit that
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| has painted its target with a markerlight.
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