Endeavour-class Assault Ship

Ra-class Assault Ship

"When i first saw the shells come down I thought it was a squadron of Petrel gunships. Of course i saw towers collapsing straight away. Those weren't 120mm shells..."

- Corperal Jason McKellan

The Ra-class Assault Ship was introduced in the winter of 2616 after tactical analysis of battles against the Necros on the surface of Linna. Their LVA class vessels had proven to out run the larger UNSC Freya and Odin class Carriers during orbital operations, along with carrying heftier complements than the Horus and greater air to ground fire power than the Isis and Heimdall. This enabled the Necros to launch many succesful counter attacks until the UNSC turned the tide on it by using either HOPE launchers, Gull dropship assaults and the use of the ground launched anti capital ship CORROSIVE Missile. The Ra class is both fast, possess a number of on board defesive lasers of both AURORA and TITAN sizes, four dual barrelled 400mm cannons capable of extremely high rates of fire (capable of reloading one cannon in just under two seconds, turrets are fired at different times so one barrel will be firing, the other reloading, allowing enar continuous fire), a launch bay capable of launching either Gull dropships or Raptor, Owl or Sparrowhawk Gunships, underslung drop bays armed with eight Hornets, a large cargo capacity and a powerul Plasma Fusion Drive. It however, has no slipspace drive, requiring it to piggy back on ships such as the Gigantes-class Tug.

UNSC Comments
"When you a see a squadron of these girls hard burning through the atmosphere... You know somebody is getting an ass whooping."

"The thing is a almost full proof method of bringing supplies and troops to the battlefield."

"We'd had wild weasel units pounding the ruins of New Kaliningrad, running out thier surface to air missiles and surface to capital ship missiles, along with hitting any naval guns, meaning we were clear to go. Twelve Ra-class Assault Ships turn up straight outta the mist, releasing swarms of gunships and dropships. After the shock and awe had faded we had secured something like 67% of the city."

"The weapons layout is interesting...The four guns are all mounted on the underbelly of this monster at 12, 3, 9 and 6 o clock, meaning they can pound targets allround. The Firestorms are mounted on the roof, pointing at 10:30, 1:30, 4:30 and 7:30. Oh and point defence lasers everywhere. EVERYWHERE."

Ships of the line

 * UNSC Ra
 * UNSC Falcon
 * UNSC Avenging Eagle
 * UNSC Gathering of Fates
 * UNSC Sledgehammer
 * UNSC Anvil
 * UNSC Thunderbolt
 * UNSC Wardog