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The Aegis class of fighters is the main line of fighters in the Raiden Fighters series. The first game has the Aegis, with the designation GD-1, and is the protagonist of the first game. The second and third games has the alternative fighter called Aegis IV, which the only difference is the color of its laser weapon and a gray-colored nose. The secret Aegis II-C appears only in Raiden Fighters 2: Operation Hell Dive, and has different capabilities from the other fighters in its class.

Plots[]

Raiden Fighters[]

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Aegis is one of seven fighters (5 canon, 2 guest from other games) chosen to overthrow a wicked dictator who rules Cranass with an iron fist. Aegis must either with a partner fighter or by itself go through 3 missions and 7 stages (the first two missions contain 3 areas each, with every third stage from the first two set involves the main unit led by the core war machine. The third mission is the final and the seventh stage) of enemy territories and destroy the dictator's military and its war machines. After destroying the fortress Rafflesia the war ended victory for the rebel in which Aegis was part of, and the dictator's military suffered a serious defeat. In order to avoid a total annihilation, the enemy military retreated after quickly gathering whatever remains it can salvage. With the war ended, it is expected that there would be peaceful days for some time. Or is it?

Raiden Fighters 2: Operation Hell Dive[]

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Four years have passed since RF, and Aegis from the first game had gone a transition as well as an upgrade. In this game Aegis is named Aegis IV, supposedly successor model from the GD-1. Also, this time Aegis is not a protagonist plane; that mantle went to Hell Diver, a first twin ion-engine jet fighter bearing the name of the operation called Hell Dive. Still, Aegis IV participates along with its fellow fighters in a second war against a former Cranassian dictator who fell from power by the events in the RF and his loyalist military that managed to rebuild its devastated force in four years and began attacking newly established government. After once again going through 7 stages of battles and destroying their three major war machines (Violet Head, Sand Lobster and Red Eye), the dictator's military is once again dealt with severe damage and is reduced to cellular-level guerrillas.

Variant[]

Aegis II-C[]
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Aegis II-C is a camouflage-colored variant of Aegis IV, with different weapon plans. Occasionally, Aegis II-c is the plane that sometimes joins you in the Allied Airport Stage (sometimes two even), fighting alongside you as a CPU, but can get gunned down, but if it survives, you get a 1,000,000 points. It respectively appears first in Raiden Fighters 2: Operation Hell Dive as a hidden fighter, but reappears in Raiden Fighters Jet as one of Aegis IV's altered colors.

It is also an all-around fighter like it's counterpart, the Aegis IV, average in everything, for firepower and defense. Aegis II-C's Enhanced Rapid-Fire Homing Rays are faster and are shot out more rapidly than Aegis IV's, The Missile is shot out in a more rapid rate as well. But unlike the other standard ships, Aegis II-C does not have a charged special, but the rapid firing weapons make up for that and don't even need to charge.

Raiden Fighters JET[]

Aegis IV makes its appearance in RF JET. Here it is revealed that Aegis IV had retired since Operation Hell Dive. Nevertheless, Aegis continues to serve for the new military by having been converted to simulation mechanism to have its pilot go through rigorous but necessary simulated combat trainings (simulation includes battling enemy bosses from previous games) in order for its pilot to be selected to operate a latest state-of-the-art prototype jet fighter named Ixion, which holds a key to eradicate the remnants of the evil dictator's military. If the pilot passes his/her simulation training, then he/she is entrusted to pilot Ixion and that is when the real final battle begins. But if the pilot does not pass the simulation training, then he/she is told to do better, and the game ends.

Powers and abilities[]

The fighters in the Aegis class are well-balanced. Their Lasers are Homing Rays, and their Missile weapon is a group of simple Cruise Missiles that do an average amount of damage to enemies. The fighter class has no outstanding strengths and weaknesses, which makes this fighter class a great choice for beginners.

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Aegis IV[]

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