Video Of Batman's New Dark Knight Rises Vehicle In Action

Earlier this week photos of a strange looking new vehicle started leaking from The Dark Knight rises set. At the time no one was entirely sure what this thing was, let alone what it did, now we know what it did and we still aren’t entirely sure what it is.

Warning! What follows may be a minor Dark Knight Rises spoiler. Don’t continue if you don’t want to know.

The following video shows Batman’s new vehicle in action on the gritty streets of Pittsburgh, which is a stand-in for the gritty streets of Gotham. It seems clear that this is some sort of flying vehicle, but just exactly what kind is kind of hard to tell. It’s not a helicopter exactly, but I’m not sure it’s accurate to call this an airplane either. Take a look starting at around the 1:10 mark:

Whatever it is, this is definitely some sort of flying machine… I think. Actually if it’s a plane what’s it doing down so low in the streets. Could it be some sort of weird hovercraft? What propels it? Why does the back end of it look like a scarab? It’s hard to know what to make of this thing, or what it’ll even look like in the final version that actually shows up on screen.