Controls are virtually the same as the predecessor. The F-9C Dart II was designed to keep the Dart II relevant. Featuring even more efficient turbines, it is the second aircraft to be powered with dark matter, after the A-3A. Combining speed, firepower, and maneuverability, it is one of the best dogfighters in the world. Very few aircraft can successfully challenge the F-9C Dart II in air combat, and combined with Paternian Air Force tactics and electronics, it can outfight any airplane. It comes equipped with the Destructive Intereference Emissions Pod, or the DIE pod. The DIE pod generates radio or microwave radiation at the same frequency as the radar, cancelling out the radar waves, and therefore rendering it invisible to radar on the account there is no radar return.