>>11185687>the one and only type of vehicle that works for Joes are aircrafts. anything else is strictly for making money off of toys and goes against all realism and identity of the Joes.special forces use vehicles all the time though.
Delta Force used these mini things for missions because they were small and could fit a couple of them in a plane, which means they could also be hauled out in a helicopter. Pretty much fits the bill with GI Joe and their miniaturized armored vehicles.
GI Joe is a military fantasy where they're given high tech shit, so if Delta Force had a bigger budget, of course they'd get some really nice armored vehicles that pack a lot of fire power if they could.
>>11185693Cobra had their own town before and were shown growing beyond that too. So it was implied they were a very large organization early on. In the issue with Billy trying to kill Cobra Commander, they fill a stadium for a rally. So that's at least 20k people who went. Doesn't count the people who didn't go or working elsewhere at the time.
They ran legitimate corportations on a national level, which can number in the hundreds of thousands for the biggest. Those corporations was also a thing in the cartoon, btw.
And i don't know why people keep bringnig up Steel Brigade. Each one was unique character, complete with their own code name. It was a child's self insert into the GI Joe team, ala Tiger Force or Battleforce 2000. Even when they reintroduced the Steel Brigade in 2005 with the 6 pack for that had the Plague Troopers, they were also all unique characters. It's only with the 30th anniversary line where they became nameless grunts and of course, by then, the file cards on the back were treated as an afterthought.
