The Avalanche is another in the G.I. Joe team's long tradition of heavy duty, cold weather combat vehicles. It takes after the H.A.V.O.C. somewhat, in that it is a heavily armed and armored, tracked vehicle that can also support a small V.T.O.L. craft, providing its own air support. The Avalanche has the following vehicular capabilities:

Armored Construction: the Avalanche is built with a hardened, solid steel frame, a shatter-resistant driver canopy, and anti-piercing armored treads; in other words, it's rather durable. This gives the Avalanche an effective material strength of 12, and offers its occupant +3 protection from attacks.

Freeze Blast Cannon: a curious exercise in using what you've got available, this weapon draws in moisture from the environment around it in order to recycle it as voluminous blasts of bone-chilling ice and slush, which inflicts intensity 10 cold damage per debilitating (and potentially lethal) blast.

Ice Mine Deployer: though they're not much in vogue these days, the Avalanche has the ability to deploy a full field of ice mines with digital accuracy, littering an area with intensity 10 fragmentary (physical damage) explosives. These defensive weapons are excellent for area denial and hot, vehicle on vehicle combat.

Lightning Speed: something of a misnomer, the Avalanche nonetheless has the ability to move fast under ideal conditions. Assuming no problems due to the terrain, the Avalanche can use the full, intensity 4 strength of this power, allowing it to book along at up to 60 miles per hour - though usually it's moving at perhaps half this.

Missile Launchers: the Avalanche is equipped with two synchronized, computer enhanced, pinpoint trajectory launch bays. It can fire surface to air missiles that inflict intensity 10 damage each. However, it can fire more than one missile at a single target, adding 1 point of damage for each fired (up to 6).

Pulse Cannon: this 'cannon', mounted on the side of the Avalanche's freeze blast cannon, is actually a one-shot missile launcher. While the Avalanche's primary missile bay is filled with surface to air missiles, this launcher can strike any target on land, sea or air. This missile also inflicts intensity 10 damage.

Telecommunications Suite: the Avalanche has a powerful two-way, audio/video communications system, which can be accessed from either the Avalanche proper, the Avalanche's attack craft, or from Cold Front's helmet. Using a powerful UHF/VHF antennae, it has an intensity 6 - 250 mile - communications range.

Perhaps the largest surprise equipped within the Avalanche's already curious arsenal, this secondary vehicle is a supersonic, vertical take off and landing aircraft. This craft can be used to supply the Avalanche instant air support, often in an unexpected fashion, and is possessed of the following vehicular abilities:

Backblast Cannons: the Avalanche's attack craft is outfitted with twinned 55mm assault cannons, allowing it to inflict considerable damage to enemy vehicles in combat. These two weapons, fired simultaneously, can be used to inflict the pilot's Agility +7 damage in a fully automatic, overwhelming hail of lead.

Flight: once launched, the attack craft can scout ahead of the Avalanche to spot trouble or any other quarry, and can also be surprise air support in a pinch, as most tracked vehicles don't contain such airborne oddities (aside from, say, the Sky H.A.V.O.C.). The attack craft can either hover or fly at up to Mach 1 (intensity 10) flight.

Laser Light Identification System: these basic, yet handy laser emitting 'tags', allow the attack craft of the Avalanche to identify itself to friendly sensor systems that detect it, acting as a 'cookie cutter' unit which prevents friendly fire incidents (helpful as you can't always see what you're shooting at).

Missile Launchers: the attack craft is equipped with two top-mounted, synchronized, computer enhanced, pinpoint trajectory missiles. These missiles can be fired to inflict intensity 10 fragmentary (physical) damage each, though both can be fired simultaneously at a single target to increase their total damage by 1.

Reinforced Construction: the attack craft is built with a hardened, solid steel frame and a shatter-resistant driver canopy; in other words, it's rather durable (if not as much as the Avalanche proper). This gives the Avalanche an effective material strength of 10, and offers its occupant +2 protection from attacks.