Aircraft

AIRCRAFT fulfil a unique but limited role on Warhammer 40,000 battlefields. Hurtling through the skies while they duel one another, strafe ground forces or perform bombing runs, they are constantly on the move.

• In the Declare Battle Formations step, all AIRCRAFT units must be placed in strategic reserves (20.01).

• AIRCRAFT units are only eligible to make an ingress move (20.04); they are not eligible to make any other type of move.
• At the end of your opponent’s turn, all AIRCRAFT units in your army that are on the battlefield must be placed in strategic reserves.
• Each time a unit makes any type of move, its models can be moved through AIRCRAFT models.
• Each time a unit makes a pile-in, consolidation or surge move, unless that unit can FLY, while making that move, ignore AIRCRAFT units for the purposes of selecting enemy units and determining the closest enemy unit.
• Being engaged solely with one or more AIRCRAFT units does not prevent a unit from being eligible to make a normal or advance move.

• The Plunging Fire rule (22.05) has no effect on attacks made by, or targeting, AIRCRAFT units.

• AIRCRAFT units are not eligible to declare a charge, and can only make melee attacks that target FLYING units.
• Only FLYING units can select AIRCRAFT units as a charge target, and only FLYING models can make melee attacks that target AIRCRAFT units.