Caprica Marine aircraft

Two Caprican Marine aircraft outside Caprica City.

The Caprican Marine Corps employs various aircraft in the years prior to the First Cylon War, including Vipers and vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft.

Fifty-eight years before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, the Caprican Military dispatch two of these aircraft to pursue an escaped Cylon prototype from Graystone Industries, among them a Phoenix-type jet (CAP: "End of Line").

Some months later, a squadron of U-87 Cyber Combat Units operate several Marine aircraft in an assault on Soldiers of the One terrorists, landing on the field of Atlas Arena and engaging the attackers in a firefight (CAP: "Apotheosis").

These vehicles employ DRADIS technology (CAP: "End of Line", "Apotheosis").

Notes

• The Caprican Marine Viper appears in the episode "The Imperfections of Memory" in a virtual world flight simulator.

• One of the Caprican Marine Aircraft seen in "End of Line" is identified in materials created by Doug Drexler for 2010 Emmy Awards voters as a Phoenix jet, which also appears in Caprica as several civilian aircraft.

• The second VTOL has gone unnamed, but can be seem in "End of Line" and "Apotheosis". It appears to be comprised of elements of modern military aircraft including the SH-60 Seahawk and the Boeing V-22 Osprey.

• Each of these aircraft is marked with the distinctive pentagonal shape seen on the Cylon Raider of The Original Series and the similar Cylon War-era Raider in the Re-imagined Series, suggesting a possible link between Caprican technology and that used by the Cylons in the First Cylon War.