Type-52 Guided Munitions Launcher/Explosive

The, also known as the Plasma Launcher, is a Covenant and USR heavy weapon used for a variety of purposes against airborne, vehicular, infantry and static targets.

Description
The Type-52 GML/E is a heavy, multipurpose weapon issued to heavy weapon specialists in the Covenant when they can expect to face a multitude of enemy forces. The weapon works much like a scaled down plasma torpedo, using magnetic tunnelling to form and guide the munitions to their target to destroy it. The Plasma Launcher uses a day/thermal scope, which links to a side mounted holographic sight and is used for guiding the weapon. The weapon utilises four magnetic arrays, which super compress gas in the local area to form four high explosive plasma bolts, each of which takes less than a second to form, and forms all four in a short period. The thermal scope locks onto high heat sources, such as vehicles, engines and infantry. The magnetic array then generates a tunnel for the plasma bolts. This tunnel homes the explosive plasma ordnance onto the target, where the magnetic field adheres them to the target before they go super critical and explode.

Newer USR models have independent tracking for all four plasma munitions, allowing the weapon to track four independent targets in alternate tracking mode, by tagging four targets with the sight, and both newer and older models have a free fire mode for operating against static targets.