Needle cannon: Difference between revisions

The '''heavy needle cannon'''<ref>'''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 200''</ref> is a much larger and more powerful version of the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] [[Type-33 Guided Munitions Launcher|Needler]] found on certain vehicles and turrets. The heavy needle cannon's primary use is to assault ground troops, but it is also quite effective in taking out enemy aircraft as well. These three foot long needles, like the smaller version's, home on to enemy targets, embed themselves into that target, then detonate, causing devastating damage to the aircraft. In the prologue of ''[[Halo: First Strike]]'', the Covenant camp started to fire on [[Frederic-104|Fred-104]] and [[Kelly-087]] with the Heavy Needler after the Spartans delivered the nuke into the ship in the stolen [[Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft|Banshees]]. [[Joshua-029]] was killed by them. Fred described them as being like regular needles, but about 3 feet long.