M85 Coyote Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle

Coyote CVR

"If you take a warthog, swap it's wheels for tank treads, give it more armour, a bigger engine, a 76mm gun and a bad attitude, then your getting close to the Coyote"

- UNSC engineer

The M85B3 Coyote Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance is a UNSC armoured vehicle. Primarily designed as a light tank for heavy recon and infantry support, the vehicle as proven its self adaptable. Built up from a aluminium chassis with bolted on armour plating, giving it enough strength to withstand up to 60mm high velocity guns, a powerful engine allowing it to reach speeds of 88KPH and a 76mm Gun capable of penetrating the armour of all known light and medium vehicles, its a small and versatile package, being the same size as a Warthog. It also uses a traditional Driver and Gunner layout rather than a driver with TADS because the distraction cuased by both having to steer the vehicle at high speeds and operate the weapon.

The vehicle also features as standard a stabilised turret, fume extractor, laser range finder, a laser defence turret and amphibious capapbilities with floatation screens. The vehicle has excellent preformance on and offroad that as a result have promoted the UNSC to sponsor a new line of vehicles from its base design.

UNSC Remarks
"I've driven through snow, sand, mud, water and corpses in onna these and its never failed."

"Its small and cramped inside, gets hot in the summer cos of that Foxtrot engine and cold in winter cos of the same reason, but i love them to bits."

"We can, in squadrons, easily engage tanks, its a case of out manourvering them. Ghosts and Prowlers can't do jack shit but Choppers can be pretty annoying when the ram you."