Cougar

Cougar

The Cougar was a lightweight, fast and highly flexible armored vehicle to be used in the upcoming game Halo Wars by UNSC forces. Although heavy armor fire would blow the Cougar away quite easily, this vehicle was highly effective holding off enemy armored vehicles while the slower armored ones are on transit. The Cougar had gained infamy in several urban tactical situations prior to the deployments in the war with the Covenant.

It appeared as a somewhat standard armored fighting vehicle with a pair of wheels up front and four in the rear. It bore a small turret that mounted two autocannons and a windscreen on its forward body with two side windows for maximum visibility for the driver.

The Cougar's primary function was the same of all armored personnel carriers (APC), able to use its weapons against nearby armoured and infantry units, but the Cougar was not built to be an assault vehicle. It was also the UNSC ground unit that can carry the most number of troopers. (Its function was apparently similar to the modern Stryker or BTR APC.). The autocannons may have a similiar firing method to the Humvee's machine gun.

According to Ensemble, the Cougar has been cut from the game in favor of other ideas.