Prowler

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This is most probably the UNSC equivalent of the Covenant Stealth Corvette.

Role

As per its namesake, it is used to gather electronic intelligence, and its primary role is to stay hidden while safely gathering such ELINT, not to charge into battle, as that would invariably be an irreversibly fatal tactic. Its only combat role, beside active combat monitoring and recording, is discreetly laying minefields of stealthed plutonium HORNET mines. When enemy warships enter these deadly minefields, they will most often be destroyed. This strategem allowed Battle Group Stalingrad to survive longer at the Battle of Onyx.

However, in dire combat situations, the Prowler was armed with "minimal weapons systems". Six of such stealth starships could destroy a single Covenant Heavy Destroyer. The UNSC Prowler was also unusual in possessing two or more pulse lasers - Covenant technology.

Stealth Systems

• Ablative baffles
• Counterelectronic systems
• Jet-black stealth coating
• Texture bufferers

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• UNSC Apocalypso
• UNSC Applebee
• UNSC Circumference
• UNSC Dusk
• UNSC Lark
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