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The Vulture-class Heavy Destroyer is a heavy warship classification in the UNSC/SI Imperial Navy. Unlike the Vulcan-class Destroyer, the Vulture Heavy Destroyer is primarily designed for directly assaulting enemy starships. Despite its usefulness, Heavy Destroyers are one of the rarer vessels in the Imperial Navy.

Wile the smaller Vulcan Destroyer is intended for escorting larger warships and protecting them from smaller enemy craft, the Heavy Destroyer is responsible for protecting friendly ships from enemy Capital ships. It sacrifices weapons and armour for speed, quickly moving to intercept enemy warships and take them out before they can damage friendly ships. It does not possess any Plasma turrets or broadside plasma cannons, but it does have two Acclamator Lascannons, making it ideal for frontal assaults.

Being a dedicated ship-to-ship combat vessel, the heavy Destroyer carries minimal ground forces. Apart from a small security force of Imperial Infantrymen, the only times Heavy Destroyers carry ground troops is during a strike on an enemy planet.