M12G1 Gauss Warthog

Template:Ratings Template:Vehicle Infobox The M12G1 Light Anti-Armor Vehicle, abbreviated as the M12G1 LAAV and commonly known as the Gauss 'Hog, is a United Nations Space Command ground vehicle.^[1] The Gauss 'Hog is a variant of the M12 Force Application Vehicle and features a mounted M68 ALIM Gauss Cannon.

Description

The M12G1 LAAV is one of UNSC's anti-armor vehicles, designed to quickly and efficiently defeat lightly armored vehicles such as Type-25 RAV "Chopper" and Type-32 RAV "Ghost", while also being a threat to Type-26 Assault Gun Carriage "Wraiths". The Gauss 'Hog is almost exactly the same in every detail to the standard M12 "Warthog" FAV except that it is equipped with a mounted M68 Gauss Cannon which fires 25mm hypersonic speed projectiles by asynchronous magnetic acceleration in the base of the cannon. It takes about a half a second to recharge between cannon shots. Although it appears more rarely than the standard Warthog, its capabilities make it a fearsome, agile and powerful vehicle to use.

Trivia

During the Halo 2 demo trailer, the Gauss cannon of the Gauss Warthog was shooting at a fairly decent speed. In an early beta multiplayer phase, however, the Gauss Warthog seemed to be slowed down and also seemed to have lost all of its hype. It was later revamped to its original rate of fire during the game's final stages.
In the E3 2000 Halo: Combat Evolved trailer, a Warthog had a turret similar to the Halo 2 Gauss turret, due to the fact it was originally part of Halo: Combat Evolved. However, it was cut and dropped, but then reappeared in Halo 2.
In the Halo Wars campaing, Sergant Forge's Warthog will always be an M12G1, regardless of whether the player has researched the Gauss cannon.
In the series Red vs. Blue, the Red Team upgrade their standard Warthog to a Gauss Warthog, which fires an EMP every ten seconds, and stalls the Warthog when fired. Sarge states he got the idea from the EMP which Freelancer Washington fired to shut down all the electrical equipment at Command, which stalled the Warthog the Red Team's warthog. They tested the Gauss Warthog in their new holo-room.
In Halo Reach, the Gauss cannon is capable of shooting clean through all forged objects in Forge World.