M313 Elephant

Behemoth-class Troop Transport

The Behemoth-class Troop Transport, more colloquially known as the "Elephant" , is a heavy UNSC Marine Corps mobile command and search & recovery troop transport vehicle.

Specifications
The Elephant appears to be a mobile base and repair vehicle. Twelve soldiers can ride in it and a Mongoose Respawns in its forward hold. It is armed with a forward M41 LAAG on the top right and a AIE-486H Heavy Machine Gun on the mid left. It is a three storied vehicle with the bottom story, the respawn area that opens out into the rear cargo tray, the second story, a walkway around the cargo ramp and leads onto the driver's cabin then a small, elevated third story where the M41 LAAG is mounted. It features a crane, numerous firing ports and elevated positions for defending it. . It shares the same track set-up as the Scorpion Tank, with a set of four tracked bogies along its chassis. Its chassis is as high as it is long, providing stability. An IGN video shows its top speed, driver's cabin and turrets. In multiplayer, it can respawn troops, and holds both the flag and the capture point for certain multiplayer maps on Capture The Flag mode.

Like someone was saying in the warthog section (ME), there should be a new type of water based elephant known as the ORCA. It would have the same basic shape of the elephant but more watery based. It will have 4 GAUSS turrets (2 on each side of the ship) and also 2 machine gun turrets on the front. It is capeable of carrying a scorpion / 2 warthogs / 4 mongooses, On the back of the Orca there is a landing pad that players can land a hornet on and off of. It goes at the speed of what a scorpion would go on land. It's occupaints consist of 1 driver, 6 turret users, and any other passangers that can free roam on-board. At the front of the Orca there would be a hatch that allows whatever vehicles inside out onto the land that can be onpened and closed by any player at a terminal near the hatch. The Orca would only be able to travel as far as the shallow waters (if playing on the ground and walking into water there will be a drop and if you walked of it you would die. From the Orca's point of veiw that drop off is the closest it can get to land . (ONLY seen on the 'valhalla lake' map).

Known Elephants

 * E-2073 46833-S - UNSCMC Elephant stationed on Sandtrap

Trivia

 * If by some chance you do manage to flip over an Elephant, the usual "Hold RB to flip..." script dialog is replaced with "Hold RB to flip...wait, what? How did you do that?", referencing the fact that it is the biggest vehicle in the game and that it is unusual for it to be flipped.


 * On the left hand side of the red team's Elephant there is a spray-paint graffiti that shows an Elephant with text underneath that reads "BEHEMOTH" and has a picture of a large, furry animal. On the blue team's elephant it says "LEVIATHAN"and has a picture of a blue, whale-like sea creature.


 * The crane on the Elephant resembles the one that is on Tombstone.


 * The Elephant is capable of spawning a Mongoose at the front, and can hold more vehicles.


 * The computer display inside details specifications of the Elephant.


 * The easiest way to flip an Elephant is to spawn a closed drop pod in the cockpit and throw down a grav lift right near it.


 * It appears to be impossible to drive the Elephant into the minefield, either due to an invisible wall or perhaps the flashing stakes that mark its edge.


 * It its possible to make the Elephant fly with Halo 3's Forge option. To do this, all of the Fusion Coils and Plasma Batteries need to be placed into the back of the Elephant. Next, adjust the settings of the Fusion coils so that all of the numbers are 16, then do the same for the Plasma Batteries (only set the numbers to 8). Adjusting the numbers makes it so that there are ALWAYS 16 FCs and 8 PBs on the Elephant. Finally, detonate one of the explosives (driving the Elephant over a Trip Mine works well) and watch it fly.

Related Links
Videos
 * http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DzsNrfrBvCs