UNSC Prowler

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UNSC Prowler Production information Manufacturer United Nations Space Command Class Prowler Technical specifications Engine unit(s) Equipped Slipspace Drive Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine Slipspace velocity 2.625 lightyears per day[1] Power plant Equipped Hull Resistant to several pulse laser bursts[2] Sensor systems X-ELF Radar System Targeting systems Equipped Navigation system AI or navcom Countermeasures Ablative baffles Counter-electronic systems Matte black ablative stealth coating Texture buffers Stealth Ablative Coating Armament Minimal Pulse Lasers (2+) HORNET mines (14) Complement none Crew 90 crewmen[3] Minimum crew 43 crewmen[4] (3 Spartans) Usage Role(s) Stealth infiltration and exfiltration, electronic intelligence Era(s) Human-Covenant War Affiliation Office of Naval Intelligence (UNSC)

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You may also be looking for the Jiralhanae Prowler by a similar name.

The UNSC Prowler is a Corvette^[5] classification within the United Nations Space Command. They were used exclusively by the Office of Naval Intelligence, and were often crewed by select ONI crews.^[6]

This is most probably the UNSC equivalent of the Covenant Stealth Corvette.

Contents 1 Role 2 Stealth Systems 3 Known ships 4 Trivia 5 Sources

[edit] Role

In a similar role to its namesake, it is used to gather electronic intelligence, and its primary role is to stay hidden while safely gathering such intelligence, not to charge into battle, as that would invariably be an irreversibly fatal tactic. Because of its tactical value and potential to change the outcome of any given combat situation, every UNSC battlegroup has at least one Prowler assigned to its ranks^[7].

The Prowler's only combat role, beside active combat monitoring and recording, is discreetly laying minefields of stealthed nuclear HORNET mines in orbital regions. Enemy ships that unknowingly enter these minefields can be destroyed by a single Prowler, allowing the remainder of the UNSC forces to move in and finish off the survivors with MAC strikes and Archer missiles. This stratagem allowed Battle Group Stalingrad to wage a short but devastating battle against the Covenant at Onyx, destroying significantly more ships than their own number, an extremely rare outcome among UNSC-Covenant engagements.

[edit] Stealth Systems

• Ablative baffles
• Counter-electronic systems
• Stealth Ablative Coating
• Texture buffers

[edit] Known ships

• UNSC Apocalypso
• UNSC Applebee
• UNSC Circumference - destroyed
• UNSC Dusk
• UNSC Lark
• UNSC Point of No Return (Stealth Cruiser)
• UNSC Razor's Edge
• UNSC Tokyo Rules
• UNSC Last Gleaming

[edit] Trivia

• There is a Brute land vehicle with the same name.
• Spartan Gray Team could pilot a prowler, meaning a prowler could be piloted by a crew of only three people.
• There also exists a Stealth Cruiser, the UNSC Point of No Return the size of a destroyer, which seems antithetical to the purpose and methods of stealth.

[edit] Sources

1. ↑ Slipspace#Velocities
2. ↑ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
3. ↑ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 186
4. ↑ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 186
5. ↑ Halo: The Fall of Reach pg. 281
6. ↑ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 162
7. ↑ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 329

Known Prowlers
UNSC Apocalypso · UNSC Applebee · UNSC Circumference · UNSC Dusk · UNSC Lark · UNSC Razor's Edge

UNSC Starship Classifications
Starfighters	C709 Longsword-class Interceptor
Dropships/Cargo Transports	D77-TC Pelican - D77H-TCI Pelican Dropship - Albatross - Pod - Bumblebee - Human Cargo Ship
Support Starships	Calypso-class Exfiltration Craft - Black Cat-class Subprowler - Chiroptera-class Stealth Vessel - Prowler - Laden-class Freighter - Parabola-class Freighter
Light Capital Warships	Mako-class Corvette - Stealth Cruiser - UNSC Light Frigate - UNSC Frigate - UNSC Destroyer
Cruisers	Halcyon-class - Marathon-class
Carriers	UNSC Carrier - Phoenix-class Colony Ship - UNSC Supercarrier
See Also: List of Starships
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