User:Flame-124/MAW-100 Juggernaut

"Oh sure they looked funny, but downrange some innie was getting a world of hurt."

- Random Marine

The MAW-100 (Mechanized Artillery Walker) “Juggernaut,” also called “chicken legs” by service members, was an experimental bipedal walker artillery platform. It was decommissioned by the time of the Human-Covenant War due to the costs of production and maintenance, and the lessened need for artillery.

Description
"I'm the Juggernaut!"

- Oft repeated, poor joke

The platform was a bipedal mechanized walker with three 200mm cannons mounted on top, ammo storage, autoloaders, along with the crew cockpit in a separate module on the side. The walker would have to deploy secondary stabilizers to fire, but otherwise could cover most terrain seen on Earth-like worlds. Due to its appearance and ungainly walk it was nicknamed “chicken legs” by UNSC service members who happened to see it. However, the firepower a Juggernaut could release was nothing to laugh at. The three 200mm cannons could be fired by line-of-sight, which was relatively inaccurate, or the Juggernaut could receive targeting data from a forward spotter, typically sniper teams. The cannons could be loaded with high explosive, airburst, or incendiary rounds for increased effectiveness.

Service
"Shot over."

The Juggernaut was field tested in 2520 and saw widespread distribution by 2522. However, it fell out of grace fairly quickly, as individual units were costly to produce and were relatively fragile in the field. Preventative maintenance also increased costs, and the walkers became the targets of insurrectionist sabotage. Juggernauts were finally phased out by 2530, with several hundred being kept in storage. After the Human-Covenant War some Juggernauts were brought back into service in a limited capacity.