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[[File:H3_HighGround_SAM.png|300px|thumb|A SAM launcher in Outpost C9.{{Ref/Reuse|HG}}]]

'''Surface-to-air missile launchers''', colloquially known as '''SAM sites''',{{Ref/Site|URL=http://halo.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12516|Site=Bungie.net|Page=Humpday Challenge: Double Trouble|Quote=After clawing our way back to a 5-5 tie, Frankie and I spawned by the Mongoose near the SAM Site.|D=14|M=10|Y=2014}} are a kind of [[Anti-aircraft weapon|anti-aircraft]] emplacement employed by the [[United Nations Space Command]].

The surface-to-air missile launchers in UNSC service are large multiple-launch-system emplacements, firing missiles at enemy aircraft. There are two major known variants of launcher, with broadly similar designs;

This SAM launcher used by [[human]]ity during the [[Battle for Earth]]. It can load three [[Advanced Short-Range Ground-to-Air Missile 10X|ASGRAM 10X]] missiles for firing, with racks of four additional ASRGAM 10Xs often seen accompanying it. Such weapons were in use by the UNSC in [[Voi]] and [[Outpost C9]] during the [[Battle of Earth]].{{Ref/Level|H3|The Storm}}{{Ref/Level|H3|Floodgate}}{{Ref/Map|Id=HG|H3|High ground}}

File:H3_TheStorm_SAM.png|A SAM launcher and some ASRGAM missiles during the [[Battle of Voi]].

 

Multiple of these kinds of launcher were used by the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] to defend their [[Oasis (map)|black site]] surrounding the site of a recovered dormant [[Lifeworker terraforming vessel]]. Unlike the prior variant, they contain three blocks of four missiles.{{Ref/Map|HINF|Oasis}}

 

The Surface-to-Air Missile launcher is present in ''[[Halo 3]]'' on the [[Campaign]] levels [[The Storm]] and [[Floodgate]], as well on the [[multiplayer]] level [[High Ground]]. It is unusable and serves only as scenery.

SAM launchers are present in a scenery role on the ''[[Halo Infinite]]'' map [[Oasis]]. They are also placeable scenery objects in [[Forge/Halo Infinite|Forge]] mode.

==Production notes==

For High Ground, Bungie had tried to have the SAM site AI-controlled, so that when players are charging up the map, there would be a risk of being killed by the launcher. Bungie had its AI capabilities removed, mainly because there was too much firepower coming down on the attackers.{{Ref/Marketing|H3|Ad=Halo 3 ViDoc: Is Quisnam Protero Damno!}}

File:H3 Alpha HighGround.jpg|The SAM site on [[High Ground (level)|High Ground]] in the ''Halo 3'' alpha.

File:H3 HighGround_BigAssMortarGun.jpg|Diagram of the original High Ground concept model with the SAM launcher and its firing area marked in red.

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