Fuel rod cannon

Fuel rod cannon
Production overview
Manufacturer:	Varies; presumably depends on vehicle Human-Covenant War Assembly Forges; Post-war Forge of Raansek; Gethrog Armory; Lodam Armory;
Type:	Anti-personnel, anti-armor, anti-vehicle, anti-aircraft
Specifications
Length:	130.2 centimetres (51.26 in)
Weight:	23 kilograms (51 lb)
Ammunition type:	Class-3 fuel rod
Effective range:	168 metres (550 ft)
Service history
In service:	Human-Covenant War ; Great Schism ; Post-Covenant War conflicts

This article is about the vehicle-mounted weapon. For the infantry-portable, shoulder-mounted weapon, see fuel rod gun. For the weapon used by the Mgalekgolo, see Assault cannon.

The fuel rod cannon is a vehicle-mounted projectile weapon typically used by the Covenant and its remnants on a variety of their vehicles, notably including Skyhunter Wraiths,^[7] Banshees,^[8]^[1] and Seraphs.^[2] As their name suggests, fuel rod cannons fire Class-3 fuel rods, which have a greater range and a capability to track heat signatures when compared to the Class-2 counterparts loaded in the infantry-portable fuel rod gun.^[10] It is nicknamed Big Green Death and Green Death.^[9]

Overview

Design details

Fuel rod cannons, though sharing many properties with the Mgalekgolo's assault cannon,^[11] fire Class-3 fuel rod caseless projectiles, which contain radioactive, highly explosive material encased in a transparent shell.^[12] The Class-3 fuel rods fired by the cannon are larger and more damaging than their Class-2 counterparts, which are intended for armor and infantry on short ranges. For long range or anti-air combat, however, the Class-3 fuel rods are more powerful, have a greater range, and are capable of tracking the heat signatures of vehicles.^[10] They are marginally weaker than a plasma mortar, but travel at a higher velocity with a higher accuracy.^[9] Variants exists within the fuel rod cannon classification: whereas the variants on Banshees are forward-firing, semi-automatic cannons, the anti-air Wraiths employ rapid-fire fuel rod cannons that a barrage of fuel rods.^[2]

Usage

Fuel rod cannons

'Ahtulai Workshop Banshee - 1x fuel rod cannon^[6]
Drailaac-pattern Banshee - 1x fuel rod cannon^[8]
D'nomlhe-pattern Banshee - 1x fuel rod cannon^[8]
Elsedda-pattern Banshee - 1x fuel rod cannon^[1]
Irdnekt-pattern Banshee - 1x fuel rod cannon^[1]
Is'belox-pattern Banshee - 1x fuel rod cannon^[1]
Kaelum Workshop Banshee - 1x fuel rod cannon^[5]
Oghal-pattern Banshee - 1x fuel rod cannon^[8]
Te'ved-pattern Banshee - 1x fuel rod cannon^[1]
Kewu Umppi'pa'-pattern citadel turret - 1x fuel rod cannon, as part of an optional modular anti-vehicle upgrade package^[3]
Preksheda-pattern Shade - 1x fuel rod cannon, on fuel rod variant^[3]

Rapid-fire/heavy fuel rod cannons^[10]

Ogab'd-pattern anti-aircraft Wraith - 6x rapid-fire fuel rod cannons^[7]
Muv'te-pattern anti-aircraft Wraith - 2x rapid-fire fuel rod cannons^[7]

Novox-pattern fuel rod cannons

Kai-pattern Seraph - 2x Novox-pattern fuel rod cannons^[2]
Morsam-pattern Seraph - 4x Novox-pattern fuel rod cannons^[2]

Production notes

In Halo 2, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, Halo 4, and Halo 2: Anniversary multiplayer, fuel rod guns are erroneously called fuel rod cannons. Similarly, the Phoenix Log entry for Heavy Grunt in Halo Wars 2 also mistakes the Korva-pattern fuel rod gun for a fuel rod cannon.
In Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST in a similar case to the fuel rod gun if an NPC is flying the vehicle and shoots the Banshee Bomb and it will have an even stronger lock-on, but yet again when the player attempts this it will lack said feature, however in Halo: Reach and Halo 5: Guardians it is possible for the player to use this feature.

Gallery

An explosion from a Banshee's fuel rod cannon in Halo: Landfall.
A Banshee prepares to fire its fuel rod cannon in Halo: Legends's Prototype.
An Ogab'd-pattern anti-aircraft Wraith fires a barrage of fuel rods in Halo 3.
An Irdnekt-pattern Banshee fires its fuel rod cannon in Halo 3.
An anti-aircraft Wraith and a Banshee fire their fuel rod cannons in Halo 3.
Two Is'belox-pattern Banshees firing their fuel rod cannons in Halo: Reach.
A Preksheda-pattern Shade firing its fuel rod cannon at a Falcon in Halo: Reach.
A Morsam-pattern Seraph firing its Novox-pattern fuel rod cannons in Halo: Reach.
A D'nomlhe-pattern Banshee firing its fuel rod cannon at a Phaeton in Halo 5: Guardians.
A Muv'te-pattern anti-aircraft Wraith firing its fuel rod cannon at a Kemu-pattern Wraith in Halo 5: Guardians.
A Kaelum Workshop Banshee firing its fuel rod cannon in Halo Infinite.