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Unfortunately, [[Covenant]] point defense technology can eliminate up to half of the missiles before they reach a target. There are only two known instances in which the [[Covenant]] disabled Archer missiles: the first occurred during the [[Battle of Sigma Octanus]], when a [[Covenant]] spy ship that was orbiting [[Sigma Octanus]] eliminated the Archer Missiles so Captain Jacob Keyes rammed the spy ship; and the second occurred during the [[Battle of Onyx]], when the [[UNSC]] fired their first salvo and the [[Covenant]] used pinpoint lasers to disable them. Even those missiles that do manage to impact the shields or hull of a [[Covenant]] ship generally fail to do any significant damage. It takes many hundreds of missiles, and usually an existing hull breach created by a [[MAC]] round to make these missiles truly effective. | Unfortunately, [[Covenant]] point defense technology can eliminate up to half of the missiles before they reach a target. There are only two known instances in which the [[Covenant]] disabled Archer missiles: the first occurred during the [[Battle of Sigma Octanus]], when a [[Covenant]] spy ship that was orbiting [[Sigma Octanus]] eliminated the Archer Missiles so Captain Jacob Keyes rammed the spy ship; and the second occurred during the [[Battle of Onyx]], when the [[UNSC]] fired their first salvo and the [[Covenant]] used pinpoint lasers to disable them. Even those missiles that do manage to impact the shields or hull of a [[Covenant]] ship generally fail to do any significant damage. It takes many hundreds of missiles, and usually an existing hull breach created by a [[MAC]] round to make these missiles truly effective. | ||
[[UNSC | Vessels such as the [[frigate]] ''[[UNSC Commonwealth]]'' employ racks of 180 Archer missiles, while the [[destroyer]] ''[[Iroquois|UNSC Iroquois]]'' and the cruiser ''[[Pillar of Autumn|UNSC Pillar of Autumn]]'' use oversized Archer missile pods which can launch up to a thousand missiles. | ||
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