Editing Prowler

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<center>''You may also be looking for the [[Jiralhanae]] [[Type-52 Infantry Support Vehicle|Prowler]] by a similar name.''</center>
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|name=UNSC Prowler
|manufacturer=[[United Nations Space Command]]
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|class=Prowler
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|engine=Equipped
|slipspace drive=[[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]]
|slipspace speed=2.625 lightyears per day<ref>Slipspace#Velocities</ref>
|poweroutput=
|power=Equipped
|hull=Resistant to several [[pulse laser]] bursts<ref>''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''</ref>
|sensor=[[X-ELF Radar System]]
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|navigation=[[AI]] or navcom
|avionics=
|countermeasures=*Ablative baffles
*Counter-electronic systems
*Matte black ablative stealth coating
*Texture buffers
*[[Stealth Ablative Coating]]
|armament=Minimal
*[[Pulse Laser]]s (2+)
*[[HORNET mine]]s (14)
*[[Shiva-class Nuclear Missile]]s<ref>[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]], short story ''The Mons Lisa''</ref>
|complement=none
|crew=90 crewmen<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]], page 186</ref>
|skeleton=43 crewmen<ref>[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]], page 186</ref> (3 Spartans)
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|role=Stealth infiltration and exfiltration, electronic intelligence
|era= [[Human-Covenant War]]
|affiliation=[[Office of Naval Intelligence]] [[Prowler Corps]] ([[UNSC]])
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The '''UNSC Prowler''' is a stealth [[Corvette]] classification within the [[United Nations Space Command]].<ref>[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]] pg. 281</ref> They were used exclusively by the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]], and were often crewed by select ONI crews.<ref>[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]], page 162</ref>

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

==Role==
In a similar role to [[Wikipedia:EA-6B Prowler|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<ref>''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'', page 329</ref>.

The Prowler's only combat role, beside active combat monitoring and recording, is discreetly laying minefields of stealthed nuclear [[HORNET mine]]s 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 Empire|Covenant]] at [[Onyx]], destroying significantly more ships than their own number, an extremely rare outcome among UNSC-Covenant engagements.

==Stealth Systems==
*Ablative baffles
*Counter-electronic systems
*[[Stealth Ablative Coating]]
*Texture buffers

==Known ships==
*{{UNSCShip|Apocalypso}}
*{{UNSCShip|Applebee}}
*{{UNSCShip|Circumference}} - destroyed
*{{UNSCShip|Dusk}}
*{{UNSCShip|Lark}}
*{{UNSCShip|Point of No Return}} ([[Stealth Cruiser]])
*{{UNSCShip|Razor's Edge}}
*{{UNSCShip|Tokyo Rules}}
*{{UNSCShip|Red Horse}}
*{{UNSCShip|Wink of an Eye}}

==Trivia==
*There is a [[Type-52 Infantry Support Vehicle|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.
*Beside the Prowler, another type of [[Unnamed Stealth Spacecraft|UNSC stealth ship]] exists. Not classified as a Prowler, this vessel appears to be significantly larger and possess more advanced stealth "claoking" systems.<ref>[http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=955272 '''Frankie''': "It's not a Prowler..."]</ref>

==Sources==
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