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The alien craft encountered in Apocalypse are organic ships that are grown rather than constructed like the more angular and metallic UFO: Enemy Unknown (the UFOs) or of Terror from the Deep (the Alien Subs). As the buildings in the Alien Dimension are studied, it is revealed that the enemy ships in Apocalypse are essentially giant mushrooms that are grown and are outfitted with a variety of alien technologies that allow them to fly and travel through the Dimension Gates to cause havoc in Mega Primus.

There are 10 alien ships that you will encounter during the course of the game. These have been listed below. While better equipped than X-COM initially, each ship that is shot down and recovered will provide all the necessary information and spare equipment for X-COM to produce and outfit advanced aircraft to counter them as well as a variety of useful squad and vehicle level defensive equipment.

Also listed is the Overspawn, which is technically an alien, but functionally a huge unmanned ground vehicle that is sometimes deployed by an Alien Mothership. It cannot use Dimension Gates and will rampage through the city until it is killed.

Alien Craft

UFO	Armor¹	Constitution²	Top Speed	Acceleration	Weapons	Equipment³	Primary Role(s)	Score
Probe	2/2/2/2/2/2	80/15	14	8	Light Disruptor Beam	-	Escort/Subversion	50
Scout Ship	5/2/5/5/5/5	120/35	12	2	Light Disruptor Beam	Small Disruption Shield	Infiltration/Subversion/Escort	100
Transporter	6/4/6/6/6/8	400/150	8	2	Light Disruptor Beam	Small Disruption Shield	Infiltration	150
Fast-Attack Ship	10/5/10/10/10/12	500/150	20	5	Medium Disruptor Beam	Small Disruption Shield	Escort/Attack/Subversion	200
Destroyer	14/16/14/14/14/12	600/200	12	3	Disruptor Bomb Launcher	Small Disruption Shield Teleporter	Infiltration/Subversion/Attack	250
Assault Ship	8/12/8/8/8/4	850/200	8	2	Medium Disruptor Beam	Small Disruption Shield Cloaking Field • Teleporter	Infiltration	300
Bomber	15/15/15/15/15/8	700/100	14	3	Disruptor Multi-Bomb Launcher Light Disruptor Beam	Large Disruption Shield Cloaking Field • Teleporter	Attack	300
Escort Ship	20/20/20/20/20/20	500/80	16	4	Stasis Bomb Launcher	Large Disruption Shield Cloaking Field • Teleporter	Escort	250
Battleship	17/17/17/17/17/17	1800/300	12	1	Heavy Disruptor Beam Disruptor Bomb Launcher	Large Disruption Shield Teleporter	Infiltration/Subversion/Attack/Escort	500
Mothership	15/10/15/15/15/15	2800/350	8	1	Heavy Disruptor Beam Disruptor Multi-Bomb Launcher Stasis Bomb Launcher	Large Disruption Shield Teleporter	Infiltration/Subversion/Attack/Overspawn Attack	700
Overspawn	17/17/17/17/17/17	1800/0	4	1	Claws	-	Overspawn Attack	400

¹ Armor values are read as: Top (above), Front, Left, Right, Rear and Bottom (below). The "Armor" value reported in the in-game UFOpedia is the sum of these values.

² Total HP / Remaining (or less) HP to go down. Destroy shield first, if present.

³ Appearance of equipment depends on X-COM's score.

Alien Craft Components

Any successful UFO crash recovery mission will enable X-Com to research their craft technologies:

Recovery of these three components is only necessary once. Research will enable development of X-Com hybrid vehicles.
Recovery of other UFO components (guns, shields, etc.) is also possible if they were not destroyed on the battlefield. Each UFO will provide one beam and (at best) two missile launcher technologies. Appearance of other exotic devices depends on X-Com's 'UFOs Shot Down' score, hence, shields will not be recovered if they were not used by aliens.

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 ==Alien Craft Components==
+Any successful UFO crash recovery mission will enable X-Com to research their craft technologies:
-When you shoot down and recover a manned UFO you will be able to bring back the following components:
 * [[Alien Control System (Apocalypse)|Alien Control System]]
 * [[Alien Energy Source (Apocalypse)|Alien Energy Source]]
 * [[Alien Propulsion System (Apocalypse)|Alien Propulsion System]]
+Recovery of these three components is only necessary once. Research will enable development of X-Com hybrid vehicles.<br>
-Research into all of those components is essential to develop the [[Dimension Probe]], the first step to [[X-COM Hybrid Aircraft (Apocalypse)|X-COM Advanced Craft]].
+Recovery of other UFO components (guns, shields, etc.) is also possible if they were not destroyed on the battlefield. Each UFO will provide one beam and (at best) two missile launcher technologies. Appearance of other exotic devices depends on X-Com's 'UFOs Shot Down' score, hence, shields will not be recovered if they were not used by aliens.
-==Other Recoverable Components==
-Recovery of many manned UFOs will often yield one instance of the vehicle weapon that the UFO specializes in.
-As time goes on, UFOs will start equipping a variety of defensive equipment such as shields, cloaking (missile jamming) devices and emergency teleportation devices. Depending on the UFO type, you will also begin to recover one of these items for each UFO that you recover.
-X-COM Quantum Physicists can reverse engineer these technologies for use.
 ==See Also==

X-COM: Apocalypse: Vehicles
Airborne	Hoverbike Phoenix Hovercar Valkyrie Interceptor Hawk Air Warrior Police Hovercar Air Taxi Rescue Transport Construction Vehicle Airtrans Space Liner
Ground	Blazer Turbo Bike Stormdog Wolfhound APC Griffon AFV Civilian Car Police Car Autotaxi Autotrans
X-Com	Dimension Probe Bio-Trans Explorer Retaliator Annihilator
Alien	UFO Type 1 - Probe UFO Type 2 - Scout Ship UFO Type 3 - Transporter UFO Type 4 - Fast Attack Ship UFO Type 5 - Destroyer UFO Type 6 - Assault Ship UFO Type 7 - Bomber UFO Type 8 - Escort Ship UFO Type 9 - Battleship UFO Type 10 - Mothership • Overspawn