Field notes from the flight line
Tactics, dev diaries, tournament write-ups and community work, published every Friday by the Sneaky Shark crew. Ten current articles below; older ones live in the archive inside the game.
Current issue
Mastering nap-of-the-earth flight
Terrain masking beats every jammer in the bay. A line-by-line guide to reading canyon routes.
AH-64 systems deep dive
What the real gunship's sensors, pylons and engines do, and how we squeezed them into a phone.
Desert strike tactics that hold up
Thermal lift, haze and long sightlines change everything about how you time a rocket run.
Ten Hellfire moments from season replays
Clips pulled from player replays, ranked by the commentary desk's collective gasp.
Rebuilding the flight model, twice
We shipped a broken rotor model, admitted it, and spent a season fixing it properly.
Season 4 Iron Monsoon: full notes
NVG optics, live weather cells, three theatres and the countermeasure rework, itemised.
The sound of the Apache
Four days on a real flight line with field recorders. How the rotor got its growl back.
A new pilot's first week checklist
Fourteen things rated pilots wish someone had told them before wheels-up.
Grand Finals recap: Coral Raiders take it
Five maps, one overtime canyon run and a final score nobody predicted in week one.
Community missions worth your evening
Five Mission Forge ops that out-design some of ours, with codes to fly them tonight.
Three airframes, three personalities
Kestrel Scout
Light, twitchy and unarmed except for marker gear. Wins fights by painting targets for the heavy hitters.
AH Gunship
The default airframe and the one the whole game is balanced around. Six pylons, 30 mm chin gun, honest handling.
Titan Heavy
A flying fortress that takes two pilots to feel alive. Slow to rotate, brutal when parked over a target.
The score flies at 180 BPM
Iron Monsoon OST
14 tracks by synth composer V. Andrade.
- 1. Rotor Prelude2:41
- 2. Canyon Run3:18
- 3. Iron Monsoon4:02
- 4. Debrief at Dawn3:36
Critics on the sound
The rotor audio alone justifies headphones. Everything else is a bonus.
Read the full production story in The sound of the Apache.
The war has a plot, if you read the logs
A border skirmish pulls reserve pilots back onto the flight line.
Someone is shipping radar gear through Kandahar. Your job is finding out who signs for it.
The storm season hides a second war running under the rivers.
The VIP you're escorting knows more than the briefing admits.
Bort journal
Campaign collectibles unlock audio logs recorded by the cast. Chapter transcripts also publish in the lore posts on this page each month.
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