
HK-Aerial as seen in The Terminator.
The term HK-Aerial, Aerial HK,[1] or Flying HK,[2] 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.
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Specification[edit | edit source]
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.[3][4]
HK-Aerials can be brought down by shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles.[5]
Known variants[edit | edit source]
In the original timeline, there were two known models of HK-Aerials: the Mark Seven Aerial, which looked like a helicopter, and the Mark Eight Aerial, the newest model.[6]
There are light raiders seen patrolling the wastelands of the Future War,[7][3] massive and heavily-armed ground support craft,[8] as well as troop transport variants[9] which on occasion have been captured and subverted for use by the Resistance.[10][11]The HK-Aerial has been deployed in many configurations by both Skynet and the Soviet Artificial Intelligence MIR.[9]
In the Salvation timeline, an HK-Aerial is able to carry T-700 Terminators onboard,[12] while a Transport is capable of storing two HK-Aerials.
In the Genisys timeline, an HK-Aerial is able to store and carry a Spider Tank.
In the Dark Fate timeline, Legion also deployed HK-Aerials to hunt humans, however, the design of Legion's HK-Aerial differs greatly from the design of Skynet's.
HK-Bomber[edit | edit source]
- Main article: HK-Bomber
HK-VTOL[edit | edit source]
- 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,[13] a unit powerful enough to carry a Boeing 747 jet engine in a cargo sling.
Notes[edit | edit source]
- The HK-Aerial was the very first Hunter Killer seen, appearing in the opening moments of the first film of Terminator series.
- A HK-Aerial is capable of storing several Mini Hunters as seen in T2 3-D: Battle Across Time.
- The HK-Aerial was redesigned for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (as Hunter-Killer Aerial Weapons Platform), Terminator Salvation, and Terminator Genisys (as the AFJ-60), which can be explained as a result of the alternation of the timelines in-universely. The original design is used in the beginning of the comic Terminator 3: Before the Rise and later in the Future War scene at the beginning of the film Terminator: Dark Fate.
- In Terminator Salvation: Movie Preview, a Hunter-Killer Aerial Weapons Platform from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is depicted as the HK-Aerial, rather than the HK-Aerial as shown in Terminator Salvation film.
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Appearances[edit | edit source]
- Films
- The Terminator
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
- Terminator Salvation
- Terminator Genisys
- Terminator: Dark Fate
- 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
- Games
- The Terminator: 2029
- The Terminator (SEGA CD)
- The Terminator: Future Shock
- The Terminator: Skynet
- T2: The Arcade Game
- Terminator 3: War of the Machines
- Terminator 3: The Redemption
- Terminator Salvation
- Terminator Genisys
- Terminator: Resistance
- Television series
Gallery[edit | edit source]
The Terminator[edit | edit source]
Terminator 2: Judgment Day[edit | edit source]
Terminator Salvation[edit | edit source]
Terminator: Dark Fate[edit | edit source]
Crossovers[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Terminator 2: Judgment Day (novel)
- ↑ Terminator 2: Judgment Day arcade game
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- ↑ Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
- ↑ Future War scenes in The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- ↑ The Terminator (Frakes novel)
- ↑ The Terminator
- ↑ Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 The Terminator: Hunters and Killers
- ↑ The Terminator: Future Shock
- ↑ The Terminator: Skynet
- ↑ As demonstrated by the HK-Aerial merchandise from Terminator Salvation franchise.
- ↑ Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 1 DVD Commentary for the episode "Dungeons & Dragons"
HK-Aerial & Drones
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