Plasma bombardment mortar

"Corvette over the starport pounded the hell out of the place."

- Sergeant Marcus Stacker, after a corvette bombarded the New Alexandria Starport

The plasma bombardment mortar is a ship-to-surface plasma weapon system employed by the Covenant. Bombardment mortars are a powerful orbital bombardment system capable of launching an indiscriminate and unrelenting barrage of plasma mortar shells down on an enemy territory and surface targets, such as infrastructure and infantry. Within the Covenant fleet, the mortar gunners aboard destroyers were trained to obey their orders without question or mercy, even if those orders resulted in the incidental loss of faithful Covenant warriors in the target area.

Known types
The Covenant maintained several plasma mortar design patterns.
 * Carnax Et-pattern plasma bombardment mortar
 * - 40x Carnax Et-pattern plasma bombardment mortars


 * Carnax Nu-pattern plasma bombardment mortar
 * - 16x Carnax Nu-pattern plasma bombardment mortars


 * Fet-pattern plasma bombardment mortar
 * - 16x Fet-pattern plasma bombardment mortars

List of appearances

 * Halo: Reach