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'''Stealth Ablative Coating''' is a material found on [[UNSC]] stealth ships. Black in colour, Stealth Ablative coating serves to refract both UNSC radar and [[Covenant]] sensors, making the ship invisible to radar, similar to the way [[Active Camo]] cloaks something from eyesight.  

Stealth Ablative Coating must be maintained perfectly; otherwise it will return radar signals, necessitating constant maintenance on the entire coating. Therefore, virtually all [[UNSC Prowlers]] have relatively small surface areas, so that less has to be maintained. An exception to this is the ''[[UNSC 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 be found on [[Long Range Stealth Orbital Insertion Pods]] as well as all UNSC Prowlers.

Strictly speaking, [[Wikipedia:Ablative armor|ablative armor]] is designed to prevent damage to a ship it covers by being damaged itself through the process of [[wikipedia:ablation|ablation]]. A stealth ablative coating would therefore mean that once damage has been taken, its stealth features would be useless.