Fighter Plane (BTD6)

For the upgrade in Bloons TD Battles 2, see Fighter Plane (Battles 2).

Fighter Plane

Flies fast and launches anti-MOAB missiles.

Tower	Monkey Ace — Path 1 — Tier 3
XP cost	2,700
Cash cost	$850 — Easy $1,000 — Medium $1,080 — Hard $1,200 — Impoppable

← Lots More Darts

Operation: Dart Storm →

Fighter Plane is the Monkey Ace's path 1 tier 3 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It increases the Monkey Ace's flight speed by 20% and adds a new attack which fires twin missiles that can only target and damage MOAB-Class Bloons. The missiles are shot out every 3 seconds and only while MOAB-Class Bloons are present on screen, locked on Strong, each dealing 18 damage with 4 pierce. They also home in towards their targets and can rapidly accelerate and turn during flight. The missiles cannot damage Black Bloons, and therefore cannot damage DDTs on their own.

With Exploding Pineapple, missile pierce is increased from 4 to 6 and each missile explosion leaves behind an Exploding Pineapple.

Stats

For a complete list of Monkey Ace stats, see Stats:Monkey Ace (BTD6).

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 22 units Footprint 28 × 18 units Movement speed 75 units/s Targeting options Circle Figure Infinite Figure Eight

Attack
Cooldown 1.26s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 15.9, -3.6 Targeting range 22 units
Ignores blockers Can fire without a target
Main projectile Count 12 Angle 360° Pierce 5 Damage 1 Damage type Sharp Speed 120 units/s Lifespan 1.4s Radius 3 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers

Missile attack
Cooldown 3s Offset (X, Y, Z) 4.94, 19.1, -1.76 (side 1) -4.94, 19.1, -1.76 (side 2) Targeting Strong Targeting range ∞ units Filters Cannot target Camo Can only target MOAB-Class
Ignores blockers
Projectile Count 2 Pierce 1 Max pierce 1 Speed 25 units/s Max speed 400 units/s Acceleration 160 units/s2 Seeking distance ∞ units Seeking angle 360° Seeking rotation speed 25 °/s Max seeking rotation speed 500 °/s Seeking rotation acceleration +150 °/s2 Lifespan 16.8s Radius 5 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Can only hit MOAB-Class Ignores blockers Explosion Pierce 4 Damage 18 Damage type Explosion Lifespan 0.05s Radius 30 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Can only hit MOAB-Class

3-1-0

Attack
Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 15.9, -3.6 ↓ 0, 16.3, -3.6

Bomb attack
Cooldown 1.2s Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 16.3, -3.6 Targeting range ∞ units
Can fire without a target
Explosion Pierce 20 Damage 1 Damage type Explosion Lifespan 0.05s Radius 35 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers

Missile attack
Explosion Pierce 4 → 6 Radius 30 units → 34.5 units

3-2-0

Attack
Filters Can now target Camo
Main projectile Damage to Camo +1 Filters Can now hit Camo

Bomb attack
Explosion Damage to Camo +1 Filters Can now hit Camo

Missile attack
Filters Can now target Camo
Projectile Filters Can now hit Camo Explosion Filters Can now hit Camo

3-0-1

Attack
Offset (X, Y, Z) 0, 15.9, -3.6 ↓ 0, 16.3, -3.6
Main projectile Pierce 5 → 8

3-0-2

Tower
Targeting options Centered Path

Costs and sell values

Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.

Tiers	Total cost				Sell value
	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable
3-0-0	$2,385	$2,800	$3,025	$3,360	$1,670	$1,960	$2,118	$2,352
3-1-0	$2,555	$3,000	$3,240	$3,600	$1,789	$2,100	$2,268	$2,520
3-2-0	$2,855	$3,350	$3,620	$4,020	$1,999	$2,345	$2,534	$2,814
3-0-1	$2,810	$3,300	$3,565	$3,960	$1,967	$2,310	$2,496	$2,772
3-0-2	$3,280	$3,850	$4,160	$4,620	$2,296	$2,695	$2,912	$3,234

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 53.2

Fighter Plane is a decent long-range method for popping early MOABs for cheap, though it is more expensive than MOAB Mauler while having inferior damage and pierce. Its main use is beating the Round 40 MOAB on maps with obstacles or as a stepping stone to Operation: Dart Storm. Crosspathing is generally not needed, as the Exploding Pineapple's missile bonuses are too minor, and Spy Plane is only needed when fighting Phayze.

Update history

For a complete list of Monkey Ace changes, see Update history:Monkey Ace (BTD6).

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Version 17.0

•  Missile attack: Attack cooldown increased ― 3s → 4s (attack speed reduced by 25%)
•  Missile explosion: Pierce increased ― 1 → 3
•  Missile explosion: Damage reduced ― 25 → 18

Version 23.0

“

Monkey Ace was never intended to be a great starting tower and instead come into power at mid- and high-tier upgrades, but since the base tower feels lacking to new players (and some of us old timers) we decided to rework low tier power into the base tower.
— Update notes

”

•  Dart: Projectile size increased ― 2 → 3

3-1-0, 3-2-0

•  Pineapple: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.6s → 1.2s (attack speed increased by 33.33%)

Version 28.0

“

Monkey Ace has had an overall rework to a lot of different upgrades in order to highlight the x1x Exploding Pineapples upgrade as a buff to all explosives [...]
— Update notes

”

•  Missile attack: Pierce increased ― 3 → 4
  • Note: Operation Dart Storm unaffected
  •  Overall pierce with the X-1-X crosspath increased ― 3 → 6 (due to changes to Exploding Pineapple)

3-1-0, 3-2-0

•  Exploding Pineapple now grants +4.5 units to the radius of the missile attack's explosion ― 30 → 34.5
•  Exploding Pineapple now grants +2 pierce to the missile attack's explosion

Version 30.0

“

More of a straight quality of life, Ace has gained a new special toggle button to allow it to turn back and fly in reverse on any selected flight pattern.
— Update notes

”

•  Reverse flight pattern added

Version 41.0

3-1-0, 3-2-0

•  Pineapple: Attack rate buff from Rapid Fire reduced ― -40% → -25%
  •  Stacks with changes to the attack's base cooldown; overall attack cooldown increased ― 1.2s → 1.275s (attack speed reduced by 5.88%)

Version 45.0

“

Fighter Plane’s missiles often get stuck circling slower targets until they expire, since Ace can’t reasonably plan against this the missile turn acceleration has been tweaked to reduce chance of this happening.
— Update notes

”

•  Missile: Max turn speed increased ― 400 → 500
•  Missile: Turn acceleration reduced ― 160 → 150

Version 49.0

•  Overall cost reduced by $300 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 50.0

3-2-0

•  Bonus damage to Camo Bloons increased for all attacks, except Anti-MOAB missiles ― +1 → ×2

Version 53.0

“

The suggestion sounded cool? & Pineapple crosspath has always been really boring so some cool would be nice
— Update notes

”

•  Missile attack: Projectile lifespan reduced ― 24s → 16.8s
  • Note: Projectile speed remains the same, meaning that the distance traveled by the projectile is reduced from 600 units to 420 units.

3-1-0, 3-2-0

•  Missiles now drop an Exploding Pineapple on impact, with the same stats as the regular pineapple attack

Gallery

For more Monkey Ace images, see Gallery:Monkey Ace.

Screenshots

• 
  Fighter Plane with no crosspath
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  Fighter Plane with 310 crosspath
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  Fighter Plane with 320 crosspath
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  Fighter Plane with 301 crosspath
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  Fighter Plane with 302 crosspath
• 
  Fighter Plane MOAB missiles

Assets

• 
  Portrait
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  Upgrade icon
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  Insta Monkey icon

In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	طائرة مقاتلة الطيران بسرعة وإطلاق صواريخ مضادة لمنطاد "موآب".	—
Danish	Jagerfly Flyver hurtigere og affyrer anti-MOAB-missiler.	—
German	Kampfflugzeug Fliegt schnell und startet Anti-MOAB-Raketen.	—
Spanish	Avión caza Vuela rápido y lanza misiles antiMOAB.	—
Spanish (LA)	Avión caza Vuela rápido y lanza misiles antiMOAB.	—
Finnish	Hävittäjälentokone Lentää nopeasti ja ampuu MOABin vastaisia ohjuksia.	—
French	Avion de chasse Vole vite et tire des missiles anti-MOAB.	—
Italian	Aereo da combattimento Vola rapidamente e lancia missili anti MOAB.	—
Japanese	戦闘機 速く飛行し、MOAB対抗ミサイルを発射する。	—
Korean	전투기 빠르게 비행하며 MOAB대항 미사일을 발사합니다.	—
Dutch	Gevechtsvliegtuig Vliegt snel en lanceert anti-MOAB-raketten.	—
Norwegian	Jagerfly Flyr fort og slipper anti-MOAB-missiler.	—
Polish	Myśliwiec Leci szybko i strzela rakietami anty-MOAB.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Caça Voa rápido e lança mísseis anti-MOAB.	—
Russian	Истребитель Быстро летает и запускает снаряды против шаров класса MOAB.	—
Swedish	Jaktplan Flyger snabbt och avlossar anti-MOAB-missiler.	—
Thai	เครื่องบินขับไล่ บินได้รวดเร็วและยิงมิสไซล์ต่อต้าน MOAB	—
Turkish	Avcı Uçağı Hızlı uçar ve MOAB savar füzeler fırlatır.	—
Chinese (simplified)	战斗机 飞行速度很快，可发射反MOAB导弹。	—
Chinese (traditional)	戰鬥機 快速飛行並啟動反MOAB飛彈。	—
This list was last updated for: version 43.1