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| The '''Shredder Round''' is a special type of [[United Nations Space Command]] projectile rifle ammunition.
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| ==Dynamics==
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| Shredder rounds are designed to splinter on impact, tearing through light armor and "shredding" targets into ribbons. They are usually fired from [[Assault Rifles]] as a replacement for [[Armor Piercing Rounds]]. However, shredder rounds have a severe lack of penetration power and they are all but useless against [[Covenant]] [[Shields#Covenant_Shielding|personal shields]]. They are most often used against massed enemies with light armour such as grunts.
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| ==Appearances==
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| This type of ammunition was often used by the [[Spartan-II]]s when they ran out of AP ammunition.
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| In the [[Lambda Serpentis System]] in [[2535]], the [[Spartans]] of [[Blue Team]] switched to using shredder rounds after exhausting all of their AP rounds when gunning down a horde of [[Grunts]].<ref>''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', page 3</ref> Another example, also in Fall of Reach, is when Blue Team is at [[Cote d'Azur]].
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| The Spartans were in a firefight with two [[Hunter]]s in a museum and when they found out that the [[Armor Piercing Rounds|AP rounds]] were not effective against the Hunter's armor. [[Spartan-117]] ordered the team to switch to shredder rounds and shoot the marble floor beneath the Hunters. <ref>''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', page 208</ref>
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| ==MAC Shredder Round==
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| Apparently there was a new [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]] gun under the concurrent development that fired a smaller round that acted similar to a shredder round. [[The Pillar of Autumn]] was the only known [[UNSC]] ship to be armed with this type of MAC weaponry.{{citation needed}}
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| == Trivia ==
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| *The real world variant would be JHC, or '''j'''acketed '''h'''ollow '''c'''avity ammunition. This is a variety of hollow point bullet where the hollow is unusually large, with the intention that the bullet fragments into several large partial projectiles on impact. This spreads the damage over a larger area. These rounds are surrounded with a fluted or perforated metal jacket in order to provide optimal fragmentary habits, as opposed to a haphazard disintegration which would do less damage.
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| ==Related Articles==
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| *[[United Nations Space Command]]
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| *[[MA2B Assault Rifle]]
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| *[[MA5B ICWS Assault Rifle]]
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| *[[MA5C ICWS Assault Rifle]]
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| ==Sources==
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| <references/>
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| [[Category:UNSC]]
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| [[Category:Ammunition]]
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