Sand Vipers are a “Viper” class in name only, they are completely unlike most other specialty Viper fields where the enlisted members are blue troops to start in Cobra and excel to be reclassified in a specialized field and the officers are recruited from outside Cobra (law enforcement, world militaries, etc). There is no uniformity, no standard issued equipment, no set pay scale, nor any chance of ever seeing duty in any climate other than the desert for the Sand Vipers.
No, the so-called 'Sand Vipers' are glorified mercenaries: some of the sickest, most efficient, untouchable, bad-ass loners on the planet. A good many of these Sand Vipers make more money than half of Cobra’s oldest agents and enjoy an autonomy outside of Cobra most the grunts can’t even imagine is possible. They answer to Cobra Commander as supreme ruler but he never interacts with them directly, he does not need them to report in: they would not
be Sand Vipers if he did not trust them to carry out their missions. These mercenaries answer to Major Bludd; absolutely nobody else and without exception (he began with Cobra as a soldier-for-hire himself but he’s been working for Cobra for so long and been paid so well by the snakes he’ll probably never work for anyone else).
SCORPONOK
AK-47 shoots darts of lethal scorpion venom:
DREADWING
