In mentioned in the spartan ops on Halo 4 (and in other places), there are these havoc class nukes. The details are skimmed over, but I need some help learning about what are they. I could check my encyclopedia but I do not have it, and never once has it even mentioned in it (I’ve read most of it, but I have read at lest something on each page). Chances are, it was made for the events from back when forerunners existed to Halo 3.
Any help on this?
Some stuff on it can be found on Halopedia.
Consider how how a mining nuke (in this case, the Havok) has a 30 Megaton yield, and a Fury nuke (aka, the “football” nuke, given its size in Deliver Hope) could have a yield of ~13 kilotons (Deliver Hope) to a megaton (Deliver Hope) of TNT, it makes you wonder the yield of other UNSC shipboard nukes that they utilise in space combat, such as the Shiva Nuclear Missile. They most likely possess nukes that surpass the TSAR bomb that they utilise in space combat. It also makes you think why the UNSC MAC weaponry utilised in UNSC Frigates are so “low” (supposedly 64 kilotons, but around the end of the War, UNSC frigates had MACs with the yield of 245 kilotons at a minimum, given how in the Storm Cutscene a MAC traveled from a frigate to the Keyship at the centre in the portal at less than or equal to a second, given how the portal is 117km in diameter and hence the MAC round should have traveled at around 58.5km/s to reach the Keyship in a second) when compared to UNSC nukes. Yes, the two weapons operate differently but you’d think MACs would be more powerful.
Also, do note that I’m not taking the NOVA bomb into account.
@Ford Thanks. Hope I can make it up to you.
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> Some stuff on it can be found on Halopedia.
> http://www.halopedia.org/HAVOK_tactical_nuclear_weapon
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> Consider how how a mining nuke (in this case, the Havok) has a 30 Megaton yield, and a Fury nuke (aka, the “football” nuke, given its size in Deliver Hope) could have a yield of ~13 kilotons (Deliver Hope) to a megaton (Deliver Hope) of TNT, it makes you wonder the yield of other UNSC shipboard nukes that they utilise in space combat, such as the Shiva Nuclear Missile. They most likely possess nukes that surpass the TSAR bomb that they utilise in space combat. It also makes you think why the UNSC MAC weaponry utilised in UNSC Frigates are so “low” (supposedly 64 kilotons, but around the end of the War, UNSC frigates had MACs with the yield of 245 kilotons at a minimum, given how in the Storm Cutscene a MAC traveled from a frigate to the Keyship at the centre in the portal at less than or equal to a second, given how the portal is 117km in diameter and hence the MAC round should have traveled at around 58.5km/s to reach the Keyship in a second) when compared to UNSC nukes. Yes, the two weapons operate differently but you’d think MACs would be more powerful.
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> Also, do note that I’m not taking the NOVA bomb into account.
Well space wise nukes do work differently. And the MAC is way more concentrated than the others probably. Plus it’s easier to shoot down the nukes than it is the MACs.
UNSC uses HAVOK class nukes as their primary ground-based nuke. However its use is only authorized when the area is clear of all UNSC forces and civilians and desirable results can’t be acheived any other way.
Other UNSC nuclear weapons include the Shiva missile, which is instead used in ship-to-ship combat by Cruisers. Frigates instead use the probably smaller Hyperion missile. Since one was launched against a CRS-class frigate by Forward Unto Dawn and a mushroom cloud wasn’t seen, one can assume that the ship-to-ship missiles use shaped warheads to cause maximum damage against a ship.
Then there’s the Fury, which is a small yield nuclear bomb, practically a nuclear grenade.
The most powerful one is the NOVA bomb, which contains nine warheads in a lithium triteride case. When the warheads detonate, the case multiplies the already high destructive power of the nukes several times. The end result is an explosion with a power of over 4 million megatons, capable of destroying both a planet and its moons in a single detonation.
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> > Some stuff on it can be found on Halopedia.
> > http://www.halopedia.org/HAVOK_tactical_nuclear_weapon
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> > Consider how how a mining nuke (in this case, the Havok) has a 30 Megaton yield, and a Fury nuke (aka, the “football” nuke, given its size in Deliver Hope) could have a yield of ~13 kilotons (Deliver Hope) to a megaton (Deliver Hope) of TNT, it makes you wonder the yield of other UNSC shipboard nukes that they utilise in space combat, such as the Shiva Nuclear Missile. They most likely possess nukes that surpass the TSAR bomb that they utilise in space combat. It also makes you think why the UNSC MAC weaponry utilised in UNSC Frigates are so “low” (supposedly 64 kilotons, but around the end of the War, UNSC frigates had MACs with the yield of 245 kilotons at a minimum, given how in the Storm Cutscene a MAC traveled from a frigate to the Keyship at the centre in the portal at less than or equal to a second, given how the portal is 117km in diameter and hence the MAC round should have traveled at around 58.5km/s to reach the Keyship in a second) when compared to UNSC nukes. Yes, the two weapons operate differently but you’d think MACs would be more powerful.
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> > Also, do note that I’m not taking the NOVA bomb into account.
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> Well space wise nukes do work differently. And the MAC is way more concentrated than the others probably. Plus it’s easier to shoot down the nukes than it is the MACs.
Well yes MACs and nukes work different as one is a nuclear explosion while the other is a kinetic impact.
I really wouldn’t go there. I mean, a UNSC MAC travels at around the double to triple digit kilometres per second going with more “consistent” showings of the MAC (although the portrays on the MACs are anything but). The Covenant can shoot down missiles, nukes and UNSC ships moving at dozens of kilometres per second to thousands of kilometres per second but they can’t shoot down a simple MAC round traveling 30km/s or so?
Hence one of the mind baffling issues with the UNSC Magnetic Acceleration Cannon.
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> UNSC uses HAVOK class nukes as their primary ground-based nuke. However its use is only authorized when the area is clear of all UNSC forces and civilians and desirable results can’t be acheived any other way.
> Other UNSC nuclear weapons include the Shiva missile, which is instead used in ship-to-ship combat by Cruisers. Frigates instead use the probably smaller Hyperion missile. Since one was launched against a CRS-class frigate by Forward Unto Dawn and a mushroom cloud wasn’t seen, one can assume that the ship-to-ship missiles use shaped warheads to cause maximum damage against a ship.
> Then there’s the Fury, which is a small yield nuclear bomb, practically a nuclear grenade.
> The most powerful one is the NOVA bomb, which contains nine warheads in a lithium triteride case. When the warheads detonate, the case multiplies the already high destructive power of the nukes several times. The end result is an explosion with a power of over 4 million megatons, capable of destroying both a planet and its moons in a single detonation.
Mushroom clouds only form in atmosphere anyway. They’re caused by the superheated gas of the explosion rushing upwards and pulling everything below it into a collom. The “cap” is when it cools enough to start to fall back down over the top, but the interior is still superheated enough to keep rising. In a vaccum, there wouldn’t be a cloud (no atmosphere, nothing to rise up through), the blast would simply expand in a perfect sphere. That said its most likely true that Hyperion missiles utilize shaped charges as you stated.
And the NOVA blast was not powerful enough to completely destroy the world it was detonated over; simply burn it to a crisp. The moon, though, was pulverized.