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H3:SMG

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SMG
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Gameplay role

Faction:

Human (UNSC)

Weapon tier (?):

Dual wield weapon

Weapon class (?):

Rifle

Weapon type (?):

Bullet

Firing mode:

Automatic

Effective range:

Close to medium

Counterparts:

UNSC
Assault Rifle
Silenced SMG (Halo: The Master Chief Collection-only)
Covenant
Needler
Plasma Rifle
Brute Plasma Rifle (Halo: The Master Chief Collection-only)
Spiker
Forerunner
Sentinel Beam
Weapon stats

Damage:

5
x0.9 dual wield damage[Note 1]

Damage type (?):

bullet_slow

Projectile speed:

400 wu/s

Hitscan range (?):

~13.33 wu

Max range (?):

40 wu

Rate of fire:

15 rounds per second

Spread (?):

Single: 1.25 to 2.75 degrees
(0.25 degrees min error)

Dual: 1.5 to 3 degrees
(0.5 degrees min error)[Note 2]

Recoil:

0 to 0.4 degrees per shot

Magazine size:

60 rounds

Reserve ammo capacity:

180 rounds (3 magazines)

Auto aim (?):

5 degrees out to 12 wu

Sticky aim (?):

12 degrees out to 18 wu

Melee damage (?):

Strike Melee

Tag name (?):

smg [1]

 

The SMG is a weapon featured in Halo 3.

This page focuses on the SMG found in Halo 3. Information on the SMG present in Halo 2 can be found here, Halo 2: Anniversary's multiplayer variant can be found here, and information on the newly added weapon featured in Halo: Campaign Evolved can be found here.

Universe and lore

Main article: M7 SMG

The M7 SMG is a 5x23mm caseless submachine gun, one of the standard service arms in the United Nations Space Command.

Gameplay

Counterparts

Campaign

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Multiplayer

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Variants

Although not featured in the original release of Halo 3, a special sound-suppressed variant of the weapon would be added to Halo 3 within Halo: The Master Chief Collection, acting much akin to the Silenced SMG initially featured in Halo 3: ODST.

Production notes

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Gallery

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Notes

  1. ^ Results in a damage lower bound of 4.5. Dual wield damage penalty is always active while dual wielded.
  2. ^ Dual wield spread penalty is always active while dual wielded.

Sources

  1. ^ Halo 3 Editing Kit, game file tags\objects\weapons\rifle\smg\smg.weapon