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'''Stealth ablative coatings''' are materials found on [[UNSC]] stealth ships. | |||
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==Description== | ==Description== | ||
Black in color, stealth ablative coating serves to refract both UNSC [[radar]] and [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] sensors, making the ship invisible to radar, similar to the way [[active camouflage]] cloaks something from eyesight. However, the coating also doubles as a visual cloak, enabled by the ship's [[texture buffer]]s.<ref name="goo">'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 291''</ref> | Black in color, the stealth ablative coating serves to refract both UNSC [[radar]] and [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] sensors, making the ship invisible to radar, similar to the way [[active camouflage]] cloaks something from eyesight. However, the coating also doubles as a visual cloak, enabled by the ship's [[texture buffer]]s.<ref name="goo">'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 291''</ref> | ||
The coating must be maintained perfectly or it will return radar signals. This necessitates constant maintenance on the entire coating. Therefore, virtually all [[UNSC Prowler]]s have relatively small surface areas, so that less has to be maintained. An exception to this is the {{UNSCShip|Point of No Return}}, which is a Prowler the size of a [[UNSC destroyer]].<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 43''</ref> Stealth ablative coating can also be found on [[Long Range Stealth Orbital Insertion Pods]]. | The coating must be maintained perfectly or it will return radar signals. This necessitates constant maintenance on the entire coating. Therefore, virtually all [[UNSC Prowler]]s have relatively small surface areas, so that less has to be maintained. An exception to this is the {{UNSCShip|Point of No Return}}, which is a Prowler the size of a [[UNSC destroyer]].<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 43''</ref> Stealth ablative coating can also be found on [[Long Range Stealth Orbital Insertion Pods]]. | ||
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