Sherlock Holmes's welcoming ceremony was a brief interlude in the lengthy meeting.
The Emperor of Latveria briefly left the meeting and, in the blink of an eye, crossed thousands of kilometers to arrive at Royal City Castle with the Praetorian Guard. Many missions placed enormous demands on armed and transport helicopters' vertical takeoff and landing, personnel transport, and ground-support capabilities. Yet helicopters could not handle frequent ultra-long-range missions, so Mars Foundry and the City of Immortals research department designed a versatile atmospheric aircraft comparable to a Quinjet, capable of performing nearly all army aviation duties.
Like the Quinjet, this aircraft was generally used to deploy rapid-response forces. However, its firepower and protective armor far surpassed those of a Quinjet, allowing it to deploy rapid-response troops while also serving as a ground-support attack aircraft against tanks, armor, and infantry. Variants without passenger compartments could even carry light vehicles instead of infantry.
With modern warfare's intelligence-gathering capabilities, regular armies could use field tactics against guerrillas and complete their missions in a very short time. During the campaign to eliminate the religious resistance forces in Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the howl of these aircraft's engines became the last sound many rebels heard before they died. Several aircraft even continued flying steadily after being struck by Stinger Missiles and rpg-7s, right up until their missions were complete.
The First Secret Regiment had used this type of aircraft rather than a Quinjet to transport Sherlock Holmes from London to Latveria, because it was more reliable and safer. The aircraft had landed on the tarmac twenty minutes earlier. Apparently, the pilot had placed too much faith in its maneuverability, leaving the untrained passenger badly uncomfortable. Even after engineering loading exoskeletons had unloaded all the cargo, the criminal consultant from London still could not force his