M3 Bombardier Self Propelled Mobile Artillery

"Don't worry, UNSC Artillery is innaccurate at these ranges."

- Last words of Gary Fenn.

The M3 Bombardier is a UNSC Self Propelled Mobile Artillery unit. Though artillery is quickly being over taken by rocket technology, the M3 boasts incredible accuracy and rate of fire for a artillery system, making it, in some ways, both more accurate and destructive than rocket or missile artillery. The M3 utilises a circular loading system which is full automated. Shells can be literally made on the circular loader, by choosing from different chargers, warheads and primers. They can be quickly selected, the loaded and fired. When firing standardised shells only it can fire 1 shell every three seconds, with 3 in 9 seconds and up to 13 in a minute. The barrel is riddled with coolant tubes, delaying over heating by some time, allowing up to an hour of continuous fire. After showing its deadly capabilities, the M3, or 'Spam' as it is know, partially as a play on words and partially to do with how many rounds it can fire, can again, be made even more deadly with the use of S44 Masamune or S45 Muramasa shells. The Masamune shell utilises stabilizer fins and advance on board guidance to achieve a longer effective range from the standard 50km to 60km and a accuracy to within four meters. This allows the UNSC to accuratly destroy non moving vehicles or buildings with easy. The accuracy is obtained by Satillite uplink. The Muramasa shell utilises the same kind of guidance system but when it gets over the target zone it explodes, showering it with cluster bombs.

UNSC Remarks
"I used to hear stories about the days when artillery was out of its target by about 100-300 meters. Now we get pretty distressed if our shells are out by five."

"Infantryman's best friend. Tag a target on TACCOM then sit back and wait for the devastation."

"Scuttlebutt has it that the devastation of Kliesburg was caused by just three of these."