The Hell Diver is a ship that first appears in Raiden Fighters 2: Operation Hell Dive as a secret ship and returns as a regular fighter in Raiden Fighters Jet. It is an-all around jet and easy-to-handle for all types of players.
Weapons[]
The Gravity Slicer is an excellent weapon against many types of foes. The Charged Laser special is very powerful, releasing a punishing finishing blast. The missile weapon consists of run-of-the-mill pseudo-homing missiles (Spider Fang) on RF2 and splash bombs (Lava Torpedo) on RFJ, both which charged attacks consist of a barrage of missile sent at the enemy.
This ship can be enabled through the machine's DIP switches or with cheats, though on some revisions of the game the Hell Diver is available from the start. This is the only secret fighter in RF2 that behaves like the seven standard planes (can only use one type of weapon, carries two bombs on each new life, uses charged attacks, slaves assume formations during charged attacks).
Tied with the Chaser 2000, the Hell Diver is the fastest fighter in the series (not including the Judge Spear from Viper Phase 1).
| Fighters | ||
| Fighting Thunders | Raiden | Raiden II | Fighting Thunder ME-02 | Azuma | Spirit of Dragon | Moulin Rouge | |
| 1st Generation Gun Dogs Fighters | Aegis | Beast Arrow | Devastator | Chaser | Endeavor | |
| 2nd Generation Gun Dogs Fighters | Aegis IV | Chaser 2000 | Beast Wing | Death Header | Flying Ray | Eraser | Griffin | Hell Diver | Aegis II-c | |
| Other | Ixion | Judge Spear | Blue Javelin | Dark Sword | Miclus | Fairy | Slave | |
| Caladrius ships | Sword Ifurita | Valkyrie Lance | Lightning Justitia | Howl Loreley | Crawling Grudge | Divine Bird's Amulet | Eihwaz Virtue | Simorgh Striscia | |