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#REDIRECT [[Focus cannon]]
{{Era|Post}}
{{Weapon infobox
|image=[[File:Harvester_firing_mining_laser.png|300px]]
|manufacturer=[[Lodam Armory]]
|series=
|type=Vehicle-mounted excavation tool
|cost=
|variant=
|service=[[Post-Covenant War conflicts]]
|affiliation=[[Covenant remnants]]
|weight=
|length=
|ammotype=[[Plasma|Superheated plasma]]
|feed=
|operation=
|rate=Continuous
|velocity=
|range=Long range
}}
 
The '''plasma drill''', also called a '''mining laser''', is the sole armament of the [[Type-58 Harvester|Harvesters]] used by the [[Covenant remnants|post-war Covenant]]. It is primarily used as an excavation tool for the purposes of recovering [[Forerunner]] artifacts, although it is also utilized as a weapon.
 
==Design==
The plasma drill fires a single greenish-yellow energy beam, similar to that of a [[focus cannon]]. At full power, the beam is capable of drilling through multiple layers of solid rock.
 
==Operational history==
During the [[Requiem Campaign]] in [[2558]], [[Fireteam Crimson]] used a captured Harvester's plasma drill to bore an entrance through a rock wall into the caverns where a hidden Forerunner structure contained one of [[Requiem slipspace artifacts|the artifacts]] [[interdiction web|trapping]] the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} on [[Requiem]].<ref>'''Spartan Ops''', [[S1/Exodus/One Last Time|S1E10 ''One Last Time'']]</ref>
 
During the [[Battle of Aktis IV]], one of Jul 'Mdama's Harvesters used its plasma drill to destroy the caves where [[Sali 'Nyon]] and his followers were hiding.  Another Harvester ambushed [[Sarah Palmer]] and nearly killed her with a blast from its plasma drill. Although Palmer survived, she was trapped in a crevice and unable to stop [[Catherine Halsey]] from escaping with the second half of the [[Janus Key]].<ref>'''Halo: Escalation''', ''Issue 16''</ref>
 
==Trivia==
*After the plasma drill is used in ''[[S1/Exodus/One Last Time|One Last Time]]'' to bore a hole through the rock wall, steam can be seen rising around the hole as the player passes through it.
 
==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo 4]]''
**''[[Spartan Ops]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Escalation]]''
*''[[Halo: Renegades]]''
*''[[Halo: Shadows of Reach]]''
 
==Sources==
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{{Covenant heavy weapons}}
[[Category:Covenant weapons]]

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