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The '''assault cannon'''<ref name="multiple">'''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''', ''page 267''</ref><ref>'''[[Halo Wars]]''' ''In-game Upgrade''</ref> is a variant of the standard [[Type-33 Light Anti-Armor Weapon|Fuel Rod Gun]] utilized only by the [[Mgalekgolo]]. It has two variants, one of which is all but identical to the normal weapon, the other of which is closer to the vehicle [[class-2 Projectile cannon|variant]] and fires a continuous beam.

The weapon is incredibly heavy, making it suitable only for the Hunters, as no other races could carry such a massive load. The only known instances of it are fused directly to the Hunter's armor, located on the right "arm" of the colony, built into the [[Lekgolo]] that make up the limb. The weapon is impossible to be used by the player in any game. It is unknown how the weapon is fired.

The weapon uses tubes of radioactive [[incendiary gel]], very similar to those fired by the standard fuel rod gun, as ammunition.<ref name="multiple" /> The gel can be fired in globs, as seen in ''Halo: Combat Evolved'', ''Halo Wars'', ''Halo: Reach'', and ''Halo 3: ODST'', which detonate on impact and have an arcing trajectory. The weapon can also fire the gel in a "beam", as seen in ''Halo 2'', ''Halo 3'', ''Halo Wars'', and ''Halo 3: ODST''. It is possible that these two modes are fired from different variants of the weapon. However, before firing, the weapon must be charged up. This "charge" makes it very obvious that the Hunter is attempting to shoot an enemy, and it also makes it fairly easy for players to dodge the cannon's blast.