- Medical and maintenance support aircraft.
- Nightingales support UNSC forces on the ground with their complement of
- multi-purpose restoration drones. which automatically deploy to heal and repair
- nearby allied units. Nightingales can also deploy multi-spectrum defensive
- smoke as an ability, which blocks enemy line of sight. The Nightingale is
- unarmed, and should never be deployed Without an escort.
- The Nightingale EV-44 Support VTOL is one of the newest UNSC support
- aircraft used by Air Force rescue squadrons and Marine combat logistic teams,
- and its relatively simple construction [aside from the drone systems] made the
- design blueprint easy to adapt to the Spirit of Fire's older factory modules. As
- the ship's complement of troops cannot be replenished, vehicles such as the
- Nightingale are essential for keeping as many bodies in the fight as possible.