UNSC Prowler

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UNSC Prowler Production information Manufacturer United Nations Space Command Class Prowler Technical specifications Length 162 meters[verification needed] 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 Counterelectronic systems Matte black ablative stealth coating Texture buffers active camouflage Stealth Ablative Coating Armament Minimal Pulse Lasers (2+) HORNET mines (14) Complement none Crew 90 crewmen[3] Minimum crew 43 crewmen[4] Other systems active camouflage Usage Role(s) stealth infiltration and exfiltration, electronic intelligence Era(s) Human-Covenant War Affiliation Office of Naval Intelligence (UNSC)

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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 Sources

[edit] Role

As per 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 remainded of the UNSC forces to move in and finish off the survivors with MAC strikes and Archer missiles. This strategem 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.

However, Prowlers are also equipped with "minimal weapons systems," which include two or more pulse lasers. It is unknown whether these lasers were retrofitted after contact with the Covenant and reverse-engineering their technology, or whether they were developed using pre-Covenant technologies by UNSC scientists.

The UNSC Prowler is based upon the EA-6B Prowler aircraft in use by the US Marine Corps and Navy, serving in a similar intelligence role. Though not a stealth craft, it is similarly capable of gathering intelligence and conducting electronic warfare against enemy forces.

[edit] Stealth Systems

• Ablative baffles
• Active Camouflage
• Counterelectronic systems
• Stealth Ablative Coating
• Texture bufferers

[edit] Known ships

• UNSC Apocalypso
• UNSC Applebee
• UNSC Circumference-destroyed
• UNSC Dusk
• UNSC Lark
• UNSC Razor's Edge

[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

UNSC Starship Classifications
Ground Support Aircraft	Shortsword-class Bomber - SkyHawk - Sparrowhawk - Hornet
Starfighters	C709 Longsword-class Interceptor
Dropships	D77-TC Pelican - Albatross - Bumblebee
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 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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