The Venetian Blinds, so called both due to the triplane wings' resemblance to window blinds and due to being inspired by an ancient early Italian bomber (albeit the manufacturer of that one wasn't based on Venice but Milan), was an early foray on the CIR's part on the field of strategic bombing, being initially intended to retailate against pirate raids.

While it didn't finish development before the Nova Evropan invasion, the small number of aircraft built of this type proved an expensive, yet effective, means of responding to Burner raids by directly targeting NE Citadels due to it's capability to carry massive payloads, most valuably in the form of large armor-piercing bombs. These raids would usually be launched at night, as the Venetian Blinds was a slow lumbering beast, enough for Slashers to catch it if in broad skylight.