M312C1 Elephant Heavy Recovery Vehicle

"Whats the point in replacing something thats already perfect?"

- Anonymous Tank Commander

The M451C1 Elephant Armoured Repair and Recovery Platform was a monumental vehicle, one of the largest land vehicles in the UNSC aresenal. Its primary task was the recovery and repair of damaged vehicles under battlefield conditions. Armed with a powerful crane, capable, on hoist, of lifting 38 tons, capable of lifting up to 89 tons with the use of counter weights and shovels on the flanks and rear of the vehicle which dig into the ground and allow it to lift greater weights and two high powered winches. The vehicle is made up of four distinct sections, the workshop floor, a space large enough to carry a Scorpion and appropriate repair crew along with needed repair gear. The fore section contains setting and equipment stores for the engineers that operate the vehicle. The vehicle contains a second story which is connected by a internal elevator. In includes the gantry connecting the forward turret, the side turrets and the cabin along with a pair of catwalks over the main repair bay which can be folded up when a damaged vehicle is loaded on or off though the top. The vehicle's canopy is capable of being opened or shut, allowing vehicles to on or off loaded, the front door can be dropped and the rear door can also be dropped, both doubling up as ramps. The cabin is now up armoured and supplemented with armoured shutters. The LAAG Turret is now a enclosed and armoured pintle mounted turret that can be operated remotly with the top hatch sealed. The AIE HMGs are held on retracting arms by the side firing ports that can be dropped down into a firing position, allowing operators inside the cover the sides.

M452 Mammoth Infantry Carrier Platform
The Mammoth ICP dedicates itself to carrying infantry into combat as safely as possible and provide a solid base of support anti infantry fire. The canopy is now immovable and armoured and the gantry has been made into a second floor. Now the rear door has been lowered slighty. It contains a number of 'problem' busting equipment. On the front boogies it contains 'frag launchers', a number of small grenade launches, launching a single shot 40mm grenade, 28 to be exact. These start a lethal frag storm before the infantry dismebark. It also contains a powerful pneumatic ram that smashes fortifactions aside. Another feature is roof access, a set of stairs on the second floor, and a set of 'assault ramps', a trio of seven meter long ramps with powerful clamps on the end, one situated to the left and right and one to the front, allowing the ability to attack raised fortications or buildings.

M453 Mastodon Assualt Support Platform
The Mastodon ASP is a mobile firebase, providing heavy duty support fire to armoured regiments while on the move. The vehicle itself is heavily armed with an addittional two HMG ramps and the back end, giving it additional cover and a roof mounted Firestorm Close-in Weapon System for AA defence. Internally the weapon contains huge amounts of ordnance, supplies and equipment for deployment in the field. Also included is a internal conveyor and crane to remove equipment with ease.

M454 Alpha Command and Control Platform
The Alpha C2P is the command variant of the Elephant, made for command on a brigade level of armoured regiments. The internal space has been changed into a large Tactial Operations centre. The vehicle has been upgraded with a larger, more powerful though expensive plasma core, numerous more point defence lasers, thicker armour and a wide range of communication and detection gear including artillery tracking gear, millimeter wave RADAR, jam detection and counter measures, LIDAR, a small slipspace transmitter, long range radio transmitter and a erectable radio antennae, allowing even longer range communication along with localised sat uplink and a deployable slingshot launcher for UAVs.

M455 Omega Mobile Missile Platform
The Omega MMP chnages the Alpha's internal TOC for a launch control centre, while the second floor becomes a magazine and crane loader for a ballistic missile platform that fires a Archer missile. This missile is designed for firing from capital ships to other capital ships though in this case it doubles up as a ground launched anti capital ship missile and a bunker bursting bomb.