Stormraven

The Stormraven gunship is a recent (within the last millennium) addition to the Armoury of the Blood Angels Space Marine Chapter, serving in the roles of gunship, dropship, and strike aircraft. It is not clear how the craft came into being; some Tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus whisper that its Standard Template Construct (STC) data file was found by a Blood Angels Techmarine in the early 41st Millenium in a forgotten Mechanicus archive on Mars, but there is equal evidence of the Stormraven having been used by the Grey Knights Chapter of the Inquisition's Ordo Malleus even earlier than that. Smaller than the far more common Space Marine Thunderhawk, the Stormraven is no more maneuverable than that gunship, thanks to the Thunderhawk's wide array of vectored thrusters. Yet, it is this maneuverability and the Stormraven's smaller size that makes it an ideal support craft in close environs like the crowded spaces of a hive city, where the use of Thunderhawks would be impossible.

Armament
The Stormraven's default load-out is composed of a twin-linked Heavy Bolter, a twin-linked Assault Cannon, and four Bloodstrike Missiles, but these weapons can be reconfigured depending on the mission needs or the commanding officer's preference. The Heavy Bolter can be replaced with either a Typhoon Missile Launcher or a twin-linked Multi-Melta, and the Assault Cannon with either a twin-linked Plasma Cannon or a Lascannon. Finally there is the choice of adding a pair of Hurricane Bolters on the aircraft's side sponsons.

Transport Capacity
The Stormraven can carry a squad of up to 12 Tactical Space Marines in Power Armour or 6 Assault Marines wearing Jump Packs, as well as a Dreadnought in the vehicle's rear magna-grapple.