Skar'wa-pattern Mantis

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A look at an early variant of the Skar'wa-pattern Mantis AA gun.
The Anti-Aircraft Artillery is used almost exclusively as a giant anti-ship gun in Halo 3, with a few exceptions.

The Anti-Aircraft Battery[1] is a Covenant Loyalist ground-based stationary anti-aircraft emplacement.

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A Covenant Artillery piece from the Halo 3 E3 2007 Trailer.
A Covenant Artillery piece shoots down a Longsword Interceptor.
You may be looking for the related article: Covenant Air Artillery

The Covenant Artillery[2] is a piece of ground-based Covenant field artillery.

It fires bolts of plasma similar to those of the Wraith tanks in indirect parabolic trajectories. Even a single impact is extremely damaging.

Appearances

Halo 2 E3 Demo

The Covenant Arillery was first seen in the Halo 2 E3 Demo. When the Covenant invaded Mombasa, they stationed a handful of artillery pieces on the ground, which demolished UNSC buildings. Eventually, SPARTAN-117 and his group of Marines encountered one, and Sergeant Banks called in a Longsword airstrike to destroy the stationary mortar.

Halo 2

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A Covenant Artillery piece from Halo 2.

The roles of the Covenant Artillery pieces as an active part of the Covenant assault were greatly downgraded in Halo 2, as the entire First Battle of Earth was downgraded. The Covenant apparently placed several artillery pieces on the beachheads of New Mombasa, but did not fire them.[3]

Halo 3

The Covenant often make use of Phantoms to construct their AA in good time.


The Covenant Artillery was seen briefly in a reworked format in the Halo 3 E3 2007 Trailer. One under control of the Covenant Loyalists was stationed on an African cliff and shot down a nearby Longsword starfighter.[4]



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