Flight Jets

Flight Jets are high performance jet engines used for enabling users limited flight capabilities.

Description & Characteristics
With access to Elerium, alien alloys and microengineering XCOM could reduce conventional technology to smaller scale application with minimal difficulty while retaining efficiency. In order to provide troops with unprecedented mobility small flight jets can be added to the armor so that they can fly over sections of the battlefield. The design does not rely on conventional jet engine technology, instead is based on NASA VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) technology. Using Elerium the jet can produce the extremely high-temperature plasma and focus it with magnetic fields, providing very high levels of propulsion for its small size. The system carries a limited supply of gas and a separate Elerium fuel cell to power the flight jets as not to drain the suit's power, however, it can still only provide limited flight. Smaller versions of the technology also exist to solely enhance jumping abilities.

Core Components

 * External Fuel Cell


 * VASIMR Engine

Notes & Trivia

 * The Archangel Armor is equipped with flight jets.