User:SPARTAN 119/M45 Light Multipurpose Armored Vehicle

The M45 Medium Light Armored Vehicle, the MLAV is a six-wheeled light armored vehicle and armored personnel carrier. The was concieved in 2492 as a multi-role, air mobile, amphibious weapons platform and armored personnel carrier capable of being quickly deployed into a battlefield, and able to engage a variety of threats including infantry, fortifications, aircraft, and armor.

M45A Armored Personnel Carrier
The M45A, also known as the Cougar, is a variant of the MLAV armed with twin 30mm automatic cannons, two M247 machine guns, and a quad-shot retractable 102mm anti-tank missile launcher. The Cougar is capable of carrying up to eight troops and protecting them from small arms fire, including light plasma weaponry, and shrapnel from explosions.

M45SP Mobile Gun System
The M45SP, also known as the Cobra or "the Transformer", is a mobile anti-tank and artillery vehicle armed with a twin M66 30mm railguns capable of projecting a ferric-tungsten slug at hypersonic speeds, knocking out a Covenant Wraith tank or Locust Assault Walker, and even damaging the heavy Scarab Walker. The M45SP also carries a retractable 105mm M98 railgun capable of firing explosive shells at velocities exceeding that of conventional artillery. In order to be fired, stabilizer struts must first be deployed. In general, the 30mm railguns are used in a tank destroying role, while the 105mm is typically used to bombard fixed fortifications.

M45SA Anti-Aircraft Vehicle
The M45SA is a mobile anti-aircraft vehicle armed with the same 30mm autocannons as the M45A, but with the addition of twin launchers for four Argent surface-to-air missiles, or a total of eight missiles. The M45SP was often used in conjunction with Sun Devil anti-aircraft tanks and Wolverine SAM vehicles to defend UNSC armored columns against Covenant attack aircraft such as the Banshee.