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==Background==
==Background==
Similar in design to the larger SDV heavy corvette,<ref name="visual"/> the DAV-class light corvette is used to infiltrate a planet's defenses for reconnaissance to make way for larger invasion forces. Despite its limited weaponry, the DAV-class corvette used [[active camouflage]] systems to render them imperceptible to [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] sensors, and visually invisible.<ref name="Reach196"/> It also possessed electronic countermeasures, able to interfere with the guidance systems of Archer missiles, and was able to gather intelligence.<ref name="Reach196"/><ref name="visual"/>
Similar in design to the larger SDV heavy corvette,<ref name="visual"/> the DAV-class light corvette is used to infiltrate a planet's defenses for reconnaissance to make way for larger invasion forces. Despite its limited weaponry, the DAV-class corvette used [[active camouflage]] systems to render them imperceptible to [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] sensors, and visually invisible.<ref name="Reach196"/> It also possessed electronic countermeasures, able to interfere with the guidance systems of [[Archer missile]]s, and was able to gather intelligence.<ref name="Reach196"/><ref name="visual"/>


==Operational history==
==Operational history==
A ''DAV''-class corvette was destroyed during the battle of [[Sigma Octanus IV]] by the UNSC destroyer [[UNSC Iroquois|''Iroquois'']].<ref name="reach197"/> Days later, several ''DAV''-class corvettes slipped into the [[Epsilon Eridani system]] undetected, landing on [[Reach]] to prepare for the oncoming [[Fall of Reach|invasion]] by the combined fleets of [[Fleet of Valiant Prudence|Valiant Prudence]],<ref name="visual"/> [[Fleet of Holy Respite|Holy Respite]],<ref>'''[[Halo: The Flood]]''', ''Bonus Content''</ref> [[Fleet of Righteous Vigilance|Righteous Vigilance]],<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', ''The Return''</ref> and [[Fleet of Particular Justice|Particular Justice]].<ref>'''[[Halo Graphic Novel]]''', ''[[The Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor]]'', ''page 12''</ref>
A ''DAV''-class corvette was destroyed during the battle of [[Sigma Octanus IV]] by the UNSC destroyer [[UNSC Iroquois|''Iroquois'']].<ref name="reach197"/>


==Complement==
==Complement==
===Armaments===
===Armament===
DAV-class ships are primary stealth ships, as such they were not as well armed as the larger SDV-class heavy corvette,<ref name="visual"/> like all warships in the Covenant Navy their class, tonnage, size and weapons layout differ greatly from ship to ship.<ref>'''Sybex Halo: Combat Evolved PC Strategy Guide''', ''page 73''</ref>
DAV-class ships are primary stealth ships, as such they were not as well armed as the larger SDV-class heavy corvette,<ref name="visual"/> like all warships in the Covenant Navy their class, tonnage, size and weapons layout differ greatly from ship to ship.<ref>'''Sybex Halo: Combat Evolved PC Strategy Guide''', ''page 73''</ref>


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