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[[File:H2A - ODP.jpg|250px|thumb|An orbital defense platform ([[Cairo Station|ODA-142: Cairo Station]]) armed with a "Super" Magnetic Accelerator Cannon.]] | [[File:H2A - ODP.jpg|250px|thumb|An orbital defense platform ([[Cairo Station|ODA-142: Cairo Station]]) armed with a "Super" Magnetic Accelerator Cannon.]] | ||
UNSC [[orbital defense platform]]s, {{Class|Punic|supercarrier}}s and the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} mount larger and more powerful versions of the standard Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, nicknamed the ''"Super"'' MAC or the ''"big stick"''. The orbital defense platforms present in orbit of Reach were among the most powerful ever built,<ref name=CanonFodder70>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/canon-fodder-looking-glassed '''Waypoint''': ''Canon Fodder - Lookin Glassed'']</ref>, approximately {{convert|802.2|m|ft}} long <ref name="visual"/> and capable of accelerating 3,000-ton projectiles to "point four-tenths the speed of light", placing it with pinpoint accuracy and impacting with a massive amount of kinetic energy.<ref name="TFoRChapter31"> '''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''Chapter 31'' </ref> Most UNSC and Covenant vessels are destroyed by this weapon, with shielded Covenant destroyers being shattered into "a million fragments" upon impact.<ref>'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page 297'' (2001 edition)</ref><ref name="big MAC yield" group="note">''The Halo Encyclopedia'' claims that a Super MAC slug is fired at .5''c'' (50% the speed of light), and that its explosive yield is around 9.98 teratons. This would result in an explosion with around 184,815 more energy than the aforementioned Tsar Bomba, or roughly one tenth of the energy released by the Chicxulub impactor which wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.</ref> The [[Moncton-class orbital weapon platform|''Moncton''-class orbital weapons platforms]] of the [[Earth]]'s orbital defense grid, on the other hand, were capable of accelerating multi-ton projectiles to muzzle velocities of several kilometers via hundreds of asynchronous linear induction motors lining the barrel.<ref name ="Warfleet31">'''Halo: Warfleet''', ''page 31''</ref> However, these guns, even with assistance from the UNSC Home Fleet, were not powerful enough to pierce the shields of the [[Ur-Didact]]'s flagship, ''[[Mantle's Approach]]''. Only the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}}'s MAC guns managed to pierce ''Mantle's Approach's'' | UNSC [[orbital defense platform]]s, {{Class|Punic|supercarrier}}s and the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} mount larger and more powerful versions of the standard Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, nicknamed the ''"Super"'' MAC or the ''"big stick"''. The orbital defense platforms present in orbit of Reach were among the most powerful ever built,<ref name=CanonFodder70>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/canon-fodder-looking-glassed '''Waypoint''': ''Canon Fodder - Lookin Glassed'']</ref>, approximately {{convert|802.2|m|ft}} long <ref name="visual"/> and capable of accelerating 3,000-ton projectiles to "point four-tenths the speed of light", placing it with pinpoint accuracy and impacting with a massive amount of kinetic energy.<ref name="TFoRChapter31"> '''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''Chapter 31'' </ref> Most UNSC and Covenant vessels are destroyed by this weapon, with shielded Covenant destroyers being shattered into "a million fragments" upon impact.<ref>'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page 297'' (2001 edition)</ref><ref name="big MAC yield" group="note">''The Halo Encyclopedia'' claims that a Super MAC slug is fired at .5''c'' (50% the speed of light), and that its explosive yield is around 9.98 teratons. This would result in an explosion with around 184,815 more energy than the aforementioned Tsar Bomba, or roughly one tenth of the energy released by the Chicxulub impactor which wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.</ref> The [[Moncton-class orbital weapon platform|''Moncton''-class orbital weapons platforms]] of the [[Earth]]'s orbital defense grid, on the other hand, were capable of accelerating multi-ton projectiles to muzzle velocities of several kilometers via hundreds of asynchronous linear induction motors lining the barrel.<ref name ="Warfleet31">'''Halo: Warfleet''', ''page 31''</ref> However, these guns, even with assistance from the UNSC Home Fleet, were not powerful enough to pierce the shields of the [[Ur-Didact]]'s flagship, ''[[Mantle's Approach]]''. Only the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}}'s MAC guns managed to pierce ''Mantle's Approach's'' hull at a closer range causing considerable damage and even then only after [[John-117]] managed to disable the ship's point-defense guns and shield emitters using an [[F-41 Broadsword]].<ref name="midnight"/> | ||
By receiving power from [[Orbital defense generator|ground-based power plants]], the orbital defense platforms over [[Reach]] could achieve recharge and reload times as short as five seconds.<ref name="Cairo"/><ref name="for283"/> Earth's ''Moncton''-class platforms received power from stacked liquid-metal capacitance cells on the stations themselves.<ref name="Warfleet31"/> | By receiving power from [[Orbital defense generator|ground-based power plants]], the orbital defense platforms over [[Reach]] could achieve recharge and reload times as short as five seconds.<ref name="Cairo"/><ref name="for283"/> Earth's ''Moncton''-class platforms received power from stacked liquid-metal capacitance cells on the stations themselves.<ref name="Warfleet31"/> | ||