UNSC Navy

The UNSC Navy is the branch of the United Nations Space Command Defense Force responsible for naval operations. Its roles include ship-to-ship combat, orbital bombardment, the deployment of Longsword atmospheric and space fighters, and the method of delivery for the UNSC Marines. The UNSC currently has a significant fleet force, along with Longsword fighters, though much of the UNSC Navy was destroyed during the Battle of Reach. Currently, UNSC ship production is handled by the Reyes-McLees Martian Shipyards, and numerous other shipyards.

Technology

The primary offensive armament of UNSC spacecraft are Magnetic Accelerator Cannons (MACs). These are high velocity coilguns that are used to accelerate projectiles ranging in mass from 600 metric tons in the case of smaller warships, and 3,000 tons in the case of Super MAC platforms. These projectiles are composed of Titanium-A, depleted Uranium, and/or Tungsten with a ferrous (iron) core. In Super MAC platforms, they are accelerated to over 40% of the speed of light by twenty-three linear accelerator coils. Ship-based MACs have a lower velocity. The UNSC Frigate Gettysburg is quoted as firing a 600 ton shell at 30 kilometers per second. Before Reach fell, the Pillar of Autumn was equipped with a modified MAC that could fire three lighter projectiles instead of just one heavier projectile. It was originally intended to allow the Pillar of Autumn a better chance of disabling a Covenant ship, which was a feature required for a mission that was later scrubbed in Halo: The Fall of Reach.

UNSC warships also carry Archer missile pods for ship-to-ship engagements, which prove themselves most effective against unshielded targets. A common tactic among groups of UNSC ships is to hammer the target's shields with MAC weapons and then pummel it with Archer missiles.

UNSC ships also carry "Shiva" nuclear warheads, an advanced form of nuclear missile that is able to overcome the limitations of nuclear missiles in space generate EMP bursts even in vacuum.

As well as these, the UNSC mounts 50mm MLA CIWS for defense against enemy fighters and boarding craft, controlled by shipboard AIs.

UNSC warships are also equipped with significant Marine detachments for security, boarding actions, and planetary assault, and carry all the armor and firearms that could be needed by ground forces. It is implied that a significant portion of the interior of UNSC warships is devoted to this purpose.

UNSC ships also carry a number of C-709 Longsword Interceptors. These are armed with 110mm Gatling Cannons and ASGM-10 Missiles, and heavy payload bombs and even a single Shiva. Alternatively they can be radio controlled and used to carry a Shiva that will be detonated by the starship, effectively destroying both the Longsword and its target.

Despite all of this firepower, however, UNSC warships can seldom defeat Covenant ships in an even engagement. It typically takes multiple hits from a ship-based MAC weapon to disable a Covenant ship's shields, although it was quoted in the game that an orbital MAC weapon can "put a round clean through a Covenant capital ship", and Archer missiles must be used in tremendous amounts to breach Covenant shield systems. Even with their shields down, Covenant ships have been noted to withstand direct hits from normal MAC rounds, This advantage in firepower and shielding gives the Covenant an effective 1:3 ratio or better against UNSC ships.

UNSC Navy Personnel

See Characters for a list of UNSC naval personnel.

UNSC Vessels and Stations

Where the ultimate fate is known, it is so noted.

Vessels

Carriers UNSC All Under Heaven UNSC Atlas UNSC Magellan UNSC Musashi - Destroyed UNSC Stalingrad - Destroyed UNSC Trafalgar - Supercarrier, Destroyed

Cruisers UNSC Basra - Destroyed UNSC Dawn Under Heaven - Template:ShipClass, Destroyed UNSC Hannibal - Destroyed UNSC Leviathan - Template:ShipClass UNSC Pillar of Autumn - Template:ShipClass, Destroyed UNSC Battle Cruiser

Destroyers UNSC Brasidas - Destroyed UNSC Iroquois UNSC Glasgow Kiss - Destroyed UNSC Heracles - Destroyed UNSC Herodotus - Destroyed UNSC Iwo Jima - Destroyed UNSC Lancelot - Destroyed UNSC Minotaur - Destroyed UNSC Pioneer UNSC Resolute UNSC Tharsis - Destroyed

Frigates UNSC Alliance - Destroyed UNSC Allegiance - Destroyed UNSC Arabia - Destroyed UNSC Commonwealth UNSC Euphrates UNSC Fair Weather - Destroyed UNSC Gettysburg UNSC Gorgon UNSC In Amber Clad - Critically damaged, grounded on High Charity. UNSC Meriwether Lewis - Destroyed UNSC Midsummer Night UNSC Paris UNSC Redoubtable UNSC Tannenberg UNSC Vostok - Destroyed

Prowlers UNSC Apocalypso - Destroyed UNSC Applebee UNSC Athens UNSC Circumference - Destroyed UNSC Dusk UNSC Lark UNSC Point of No Return UNSC Razor's Edge

Corvettes UNSC Chalons UNSC Coral Sea UNSC Pony Express

Other Ships

• UNSC Agincourt - Destroyed

• Argo - Scout Ship, Destroyed

• Beatrice - Template:ShipClass, Destroyed

• UNSC Bunker Hill

• Coda - Shuttle Pod, Destroyed

• Han - Diplomatic Shuttle

• Hermes II

• UNSC Laden - Template:ShipClass

• Odyssey - Colony Ship

• UNSC Spirit of Fire - Modified Template:ShipClass Colony Ship

Stations

Orbital Defense Platforms Cairo Station Athens Station - Destroyed Malta Station - Destroyed Nassau Station (Fell through temporal anomaly, orbiting Earth in 2004) Onan Station

Mobile Stations UNSC Cradle - Refit/Repair Facility, Destroyed Station Delphi - Shipyard, Decommissioned UNSC Hopeful - Hospital Ship

Remote Scanning Outposts Fermion - Destroyed Democritus Archimedes Tripoli

Medical Stations ONI Medical Facility M25L Recovery Station