Fighter Pilots can be bought with Gold or Credits. The cost of a Fighter Pilot also includes each faction's Reconnaissance planes (Curtiss O-52 Owl for Americans).

 

Fighter Pilots are very effective for taking out enemy tanks using their bombs, machine guns, and main cannons to either blow up the tanks by dive bombing or penetrating their weak top armor through strafing. Pilots are also very effective at taking down Transport Planes. A good group of pilots can take out all the paratrooper planes in an Assault Team, rendering them useless. For this reason it is also a good strategy to send Fighter Pilot Assault Teams with Paratrooper Assault Teams to defend them from enemy fighters. When playing as a pilot against enemy fighters, it is generally good principle to focus on destroying the enemy fighters first, then moving on to provide ground support. This way, if you succeed in taking out the enemy planes, you will be able to provide ground support with little resistance.

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All of the Fighter planes currently handle the same, the only difference being size/shape and weaponry. The American's P-38 Lightning is the largest plane; it has 4 nose-mounted MGs and 1 nose-mounded 20mm cannon, but has 2 227kg wing-mounted bombs making it the most difficult plane for precision bombing.

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Most pilots only carry a wrench as it is unlikely that you will make effective use of explosives or pistols.