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Paegaas Workshop Spiker

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This article is about the Spiker introduced in Halo 3. For the Spiker in Halo Wars 2, see Grenflekt Workshop Spiker.
Paegaas Workshop Spiker
A Jiralhanae Minor with a Paegaas Workshop Spiker during the Siege of New Alexandria. From Halo: Reach campaign level Exodus.
A cutout of the Paegaas Workshop Spiker.
Cutout of the Spiker from Campaign Evolved.
Production overview

Manufacturer:

Model series:

Type-25

Type:

Carbine

Specifications

Length:

32.17 inches (81.7 cm)[4][5]

Weight:

6.4 kilograms (14 lb) (empty)
7 kilograms (15 lb) (loaded)[4]

Ammunition type:

Superheated tungsten-alloy spikes[4][Note 1]

Feed system:

40 rounds/magazine (160 max)[4][5]

Operation:

Gravitic accelerator[2]

Rate of fire:

Fully automatic (480 RPM)[5]

Muzzle velocity:

76.2 m/s (250 f/s)[5]

Effective range:

40 meters (131 ft)[5]

Service history

In service:

Pre-Covenant Jiralhanae conflicts
Human-Covenant War
Great Schism
Post-Covenant War conflicts

 

"Recoil isn't as bad as you might expect, but not because of any sophisticated dampening system – it's because the damn things weigh so much."
— Anonymous UNSC Serviceman

The Paegaas Workshop Bladed Spiker[3] (UNSC Type classification: Type-25 Carbine, T-25 C)[5], more commonly known as the Spiker, Spike Rifle[6] or hatchet gun,[5] is a common Jiralhanae firearm that fires spike projectile; it was used during the Human-Covenant War.[4]

Overview[edit]

A blueprint of the Spiker in Halo 3.
A blueprint of the Spiker in Halo: Reach.

The Paegaas Workshop Bladed Spiker is an automatic projectile weapon designed and used by the Jiralhanae, and has seen very little iteration since it was first designed and implemented during pre-Covenant conflicts on Doisac[4] though it has seen augmentation to some degree by Covenant technology.[1] The Paegaas Workshop variant was created by the eponymous clan workshop and manufactured on a large scale by the Sacred Promissory.[3] In the Covenant arsenal, it is one of the weapons most resembling those developed and employed by humanity, firing a solid metal projectile as opposed to plasma . The weapon fires long, sharp projectiles made of superheated tungsten alloy,[4][Note 1] which give the weapon its common label of "Spike Rifle" or "Spiker".

Although the most common spike rifle variant employed during the Covenant, the Paegaas design is not the only one; the Banished are known to use the Grenflekt variant of the spiker developed by Mistrach'an Armory.[7]

Ammunition[edit]