Howler missile

The Howler missile is a ship-to-ship missile used by the UNSC Navy.

Overview
Warships usually carry Howler missiles to complement their Magnetic Accelerator Cannons. Unlike missiles such as the Archer, the Howler does not pack as powerful a punch individually, but is instead designed to overwhelm enemy defenses in mass saturation attacks against dense anti-missile networks. Accordingly, they are extremely fast and agile but lack many of the warhead options available to other systems like the Archer.

M96 Howler
The is armed with 500 pods of twenty M96 Howlers. One hundred M96 Howlers can easily neutralize a Covenant destroyer, as occurred to Defender of Faith in 2553. The refit Able-class heavy destroyer has 4 pods.

List of appearances

 * Halo: The Thursday War