Editing Able-class heavy destroyer

|class operator      = [[UNSC Navy]]{{Ref/Reuse|Cole5}}

|type            = [[UNSC destroyer|Heavy destroyer]]{{Ref/Anthology|Id=Cole5|Evo|The Impossible Life and Possible Death of Preston J. Cole|Section=5}}

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*1 [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|5D8F6 Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]]{{Ref/Reuse|CFDigsite}}

*20 [[Archer missile|M58 Archer]] missile pods{{Ref/Reuse|CFDigsite}}

|aircraft        = At least [[seven]] [[Pelican]] dropships{{Ref/Reuse|Cole5}}

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The ''Able'' was designed as a compromise between the various [[UNSC frigate|frigate]] and [[cruiser]] lines of humanity, intended to take advantage of new technologies and increased budgets to push naval architects in new directions.{{Ref/Reuse|CFDigsite}} The ''Able''{{'}}s [[bridge]] is designed with a raised platform in the centre, housing a padded chair for the ship's captain to sit in. The bridge crew stations surround this platform. The ship is capable of supporting an on-board [[artificial intelligence]].{{Ref/Reuse|Cole5}}

The ''Able''-class destroyer stocks twenty [[Archer missile|M58 Archer missile]] pods, alongside a complement of [[M810 Helix point defense gun|Helix]] point-defence guns for close-in defence. Perhaps the most notable feature on the ship is the introduction of the [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]]: while various classes of [[UNSC carrier|carrier]] had carried shipborne MACs since at least the 2470s,{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=127}} with [[cruiser]]s and [[UNSC corvette|corvettes]] employing them at least by the 2490s,{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=118}}{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=128}} these ships were the first heavy destroyers to begin employing the weapons. {{UNSCShip|Gorgon}} became the first heavy destroyer to mount a MAC system during the 2490s,{{Ref/Reuse|Cole5}} with the [[CMA Navy]] counterpart {{Class|Hillsborough|heavy destroyer}}s later coming in [[2499]].{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=125}}

*{{UNSCShip|Gorgon}}

The ''Able''-class entered service in both the CMA and UNSC navies in [[2490]], though was never fielded in large numbers and ultimately only ever served as a footnote in the campaigns of the [[Insurrection]].{{Ref/Reuse|CFDigsite}} Despite this, the class did see a particularly noteworthy use in the case of {{UNSCShip|Gorgon}} captained by [[Captain (NAVCOM)|Captain]] [[Preston Cole]], which became the first heavy destroyer to be equipped with a Magnetic Accelerator Cannon. Cole took up captainship of the ''Gorgon'' in around 2499, after five years of captaining a [[UNSC corvette|corvette]] following the [[Callisto Incident|''Callisto'' Incident]] in [[2494]]. While commanding the vessel, Cole led a mostly-successful counterinsurgency campaign against the [[Insurrection]], with the notable exception of the ''[[Bellicose]]'' - a stolen [[UNSC frigate]] which came into conflict with the ''Gorgon'' and was able to escape numerous times. By [[2503]], Cole was removed from command of the ''Gorgon'' due to the unveiling of his relationship with [[Lyrenne Castilla]] - an [[Insurrectionist]] leader and captain of the ''Bellicose'' who had used her relationship with the Captain to feed information to the rebellion, including details on the ''Gorgon''{{'}}s MAC. On [[2504#January|January 2, 2504]], [[Battle Group Tango]], comprised of four heavy destroyers, were believed to successfully hunt down and destroy the ''Bellicose'' - albeit at the cost of heavy damage to two vessels of the [[battle group]].{{Ref/Reuse|Cole5}}