CONTROLS:

AG 1: Drag Chute
AG 2: Jettison Centreline Tank/Rocket Pod
AG 3: Jettison Bomb Racks
AG 4: Jettison Rocket Pods
AG 5: Jettison AGM Rack
AG 6: Air-To-Air Missile ARM ON
AG 8: Gunpods Off/On
VTOL: Flaps Up/Down (Inverted). Use as trim when the aircraft is under heavy load (such as on its presented form, fully loaded with weapons.)

The Socrux S.A-290 Acauã (Laughing Falcon) is a twin-engine, twin-seater counter-insurgency/close air support aircraft designed with an emphasis on payload capacity. Its large wings give it near-STOL capabilities when it's in a clean configuration, but when fully armed it is a heavy aircraft that can be clunky to maneuver. Regardless, its resilience and heavy payload capacity have earned it a solid reputation in the export market.

It is armed with four .50 caliber M3 machineguns and typically carries two gunpods with M134 7.62mm gatling guns. In its presented configuration, it is carrying one UB-21/T fuel tank/rocket pod in the centreline, plus two 7-shot rocket pods and no less than six UB-21 rocket pods - for a total of 161 70mm rockets. It also carries four 250 lb bombs and four short-range AAMs for self-defense.

Thanks to its strong structure, armor around the cockpit and its decent countermeasure suite, the aircraft has proven to be highly survivable in the low-threat environments its was designed to operate in. An amphibious variant for operation in areas where access is difficult was also developed as the S.A-290H.